Of course there were some in whom even the broadest charity could find little to approve; but it was her purpose to study and understand them and lose forever the unsophisticated ignorance at which Graydon had used to laugh.
Santa Barbara was a winter resort, and she had the advantage of meeting many types.

In Mrs.Wayland she had a useful mentor.

This lady in her younger days had been familiar with the best phases of metropolitan society, and she counteracted in Madge all tendencies toward provincialism.

Thus it gradually became recognized that the "shy, sickly little girl," as she had been characterized at first, was growing into a very attractive young woman.

Indeed, after an absence of only a year her own sister would scarcely have recognized her..