She was ashamed of herself, as ashamed as any reader of these chronicles is for her--any reader with one standard for judging other people and another for judging himself.

To the credit of her character must be set down her shame at her snobbishness.

The snobbishness itself should not be set down to her discredit, but should be charged up to that class feeling, as old as property, and fostered and developed by almost every familiar fact in our daily environment.
"I shouldn't be surprised but your father'd be glad, if he knew," her mother was saying.

"But it's no use to risk telling him.

A shock might--might make him worse." She started up.