She was sure that he was devoting himself to Miss Bosworth; every one said that he was becoming a great society man.
She had wearied of his big-brother attitude toward her.

Except the callow youth of Fraserville and the boys she had known all the summers of her life at Waupegan, Harwood and Allen Thatcher were the only young men she knew.

In her later freedom at school she had made the office telephone a nuisance to him, but he sympathized with her discreetly in her perplexities.

Several times she had appealed to him to help her out of financial difficulties, confiding to him tragically that if certain bills reached Fraserville she would be ruined forever.
Marian found the Country Club highly diverting; it gave her visions of the social life of the capital of which she had only vaguely dreamed.
She knew many people by sight who were socially prominent, and she longed to be of their number.

It pleased her to find that her father, who was a non-resident member and a rare visitor at the club, attracted a good deal of attention; she liked to think him a celebrity.