The upholsterer has not been grudged.
For Mrs .-- -- is the daughter of a commercial man, one of the principals of a great firm, and has been accustomed to these things from her youth upwards.

She has no sympathies with the past, that even yet is loth to quit its hold of the soil and of those who are bred upon it.

The ancient simplicity and plainness of country life are positively repulsive to her; she associates them with poverty.

Her sympathies are with warm, well-lighted rooms, full of comfort, shadowless because of the glare of much gas.

She is not vulgar, just the reverse--she is a thorough lady, but she is not of the country and its traditions.