She accepted all her father's gifts with great indifference.

Before an exquisite blonde piece of lace, centuries old, picked up at auction, she made a wry face, saying, "I would much rather have had a new dress costing three hundred francs." She and her brother were solidly opposed to everything old.
Now that his daughter was already a woman, he had confided her absolutely to the care of Dona Luisa.

But the former "Peoncito" was not showing much respect for the advice and commands of the good natured Creole.

She had taken up roller-skating with enthusiasm, regarding it as the most elegant of diversions.

She would go every afternoon to the Ice Palace, Dona Luisa chaperoning her, although to do this she was obliged to give up accompanying her husband to his sales.