Her set of friends would naturally have been the same as her sister's, and would have been made up of those she had known when she was one of Sir Hugh's family.

But from Sir Hugh she was divided now as widely as from the Ongar people, and, for any purposes of society, from her sister also.

Sir Hugh had allowed his wife to invite her to Clavering, but to this she would not submit after Sir Hugh's treatment to her on her return.

Though she had suffered much, her spirit was unbroken.

Sir Hugh was, in truth, responsible for her reception in England.