Winona rejoiced, because it would bring him into contact with people of the better sort, for of course only these played the game.

Her charge, it is true, engaged in the sport as a business, and not as one seeking recreation, but the desired social contact was indubitable.

To carry over the course a bag or two of clubs for the elect of Newbern was bound to be improving.
And it was true that he now consorted daily through a profitable summer with people who had heretofore been but names to him.

But Winona had neglected to observe that he would meet them not as a social equal but as a hireling.

This was excusable in her, because she had only the vaguest notions of golf or of the interrelations between caddie and player.