It seemed to her sometimes that she was step-child rather than daughter of the dear new land, in spite of her yearning towards it.
And yet money had brought its own romance.

It had enabled Anderson to embark on this ample farm of nearly two square miles, to staff it with the best labour to be got, on a basis of copartnership, to bring herds of magnificent cattle into these park-like prairies, to set up horse-breeding, and to establish on the borders of the farm a large creamery which was already proving an attraction for settlers.

It was going to put into Elizabeth's hands the power of helping the young University of Strathcona just across the Albertan border, and perhaps of founding in their own provincial capital of Regina a training college for farm-students--girls and boys--which might reproduce for the West the college of St.Anne's, that wonderful home of all the useful arts, which an ever-generous wealth has given to the Province of Quebec.
Already she had in her mind a cottage hospital--sorely wanted--for the little town of Donaldminster, wherein the weaklings of this great emigrant army now pouring into the country might find help.
Her heart, indeed, was full of schemes for help.

Here she was, a woman of high education, and much wealth, in the midst of this nascent community.

Her thoughts pondered the life of these scattered farms--of the hard-working women in them--the lively rosy-cheeked children.