Besides, we do not take girls of your class.

This is a finishing school for young ladies.

You will have to inquire further," and the woman swept away to laugh with her colleagues over the queer character, the new kind of tramp, she had just been called to interview.

The maid came pertly forward, and said that Elizabeth could not longer stand where she was.
Bewilderment and bitter disappointment in her face, Elizabeth went slowly down to her horse, the great tears welling up into her eyes.

As she rode away, she kept turning back to the school grounds wistfully.