That young lady dazzled the eyes of Fanny, who sat opposite to her.

The closely fitting habit and black riding-hat gave to her fine figure and silky wealth of hair the maximum of effect.

Fanny perfectly understood that only money and fashion could attain to Miss Drake's costly simplicity.

She envied her from the bottom of her heart; she would have given worlds to see the dress in which she had figured at the ball.

Miss Drake, no doubt, went to two or three balls a week, and could spend anything she liked upon her clothes.
Yet Diana had cut her out--Diana was to carry off the prize! Twenty thousand a year! Fanny's mind was in a ferment--the mind of a raw and envious provincial, trained to small ambitions and hungry desires.