Also, Estelle had been almost a recluse since she was seventeen.

The rest of the Wilmots went into Saint X's newly developed but flourishing fashionable society.

They had no money to give return entertainments or even to pay their share of the joint, dances and card parties Arthur decided to sheer off.

"I came to ask you to the house for sup--dinner to-night," said he.

"It's lonely--just mother and Del and me.