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In short, she would attack the one and only rich person who lived in the neighborhood of Rosebury. Shortlands was a big place, and the Ellsworthys were undoubtedly big people. Money with them was plentiful. They considered themselves county folk; they lived in what the Rosebury people believed to be royal style.
He led the poor little girl to the sofa, and, sitting down by her, listened attentively to her story. "But the Ellsworthys are in London," he said, when he heard that Daisy had gone to them. On hearing this news poor Jasmine burst into floods of fresh weeping. "Oh, then she's sure to be quite lost!" she said. "Oh, Mr. Noel, if you are in any sense a true friend, won't you try to find her?"
Noel assured them that the Ellsworthys were his greatest friends that he loved Mrs. Ellsworthy almost as if she were his own mother. "I felt that I must speak to you," he said to Jasmine. "I cannot tell you why nor wherefore, but your face seemed familiar I did not think you would turn out to be an absolute stranger."
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