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The cards of a Reverend Somebody, his wife and daughters, were on chairs in the position which she had made up her mind to have, exactly amidship and on the shady side. "I must have my chairs changed and put here," she said. And then oh, horror! I'm certain I caught her repeating the formula she'd used at luncheon. "I am Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox, and I have as my guest, etc, etc."
Stuyvesant-Knox must have given her at least five hundred dollars or she wouldn't have come a step." We had our hands done, and the Witch of the Woods told me that I had come from "across the water," but that I would marry a man on this side; and then she saw some one in the crystal who looked so exactly like Potter Parker, that I wished I had stopped outside her red house.
I merely hinted at a possible and partial incentive to these people's friendship for you, so that you need not feel it incumbent to be oppressively grateful, you know. I should wish you to keep your dignity among foreigners, even though you would, of course, look upon Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox as, in a way, your guardian.
I thought, if I were the steward, I would give us the worst seats on the ship, to teach us not to be proud; but he didn't do anything of the sort; he was as meek as a lamb, so I'm sure he can't have any sense of humour. He said Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox might count on him, and she and her party should have places on the Captain's right hand. Mrs. Ess Kay was as bad with the deck steward.
"I think it's most insulting!" I broke in. "And I was made at home, all the way down." 'I feel more at home, said she, with a sweet voice, but a pronounced English accent, 'when I am called Lady Betty. And I want to feel at home in America, because I expect to be some time with my friend, Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox, who will show me society over on this side.
"Ever been on this side?" "No. But " "He'll come some day, won't he? Most unmarried Dukes do." "I don't know, I'm sure. Really, I think " "Excuse me. You're going to stay with Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox, I believe. Will you make a lengthy visit?" "I don't " "You must have met one or two of our smartest young men on board. What do you think of them as compared with Englishmen?"
They make no pretensions to blue blood, though perhaps they may have some in their veins, and don't think themselves superior socially to their own farm hands like that one over there. Nor do they consider themselves inferior to anybody. Not that they would think of asserting their claims to equality with your friend Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox, for instance.
"I didn't mean to; it slipped out," I defended myself. "Besides, it was you who nicknamed her that." "Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox is a very charming person, and a thorough woman of the world," Mother asserted, in that way she has of saying the word which you had better leave for the last if you know what is good for you.
"It is late, isn't it?" said I, hopefully, looking at my watch. "Perhaps it's too late to go this morning, after all." "Not a bit of it," said Sally. "Come along." "I'm not sure but that I'd better stop in, if Mr. Parker thinks Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox would want me to," I floundered on. "She won't mind not much, anyway, if we don't take you to the Casino without her," Sally tried to reassure me.
They both think as much of themselves as your aristocracy does and mighty little of each other." "I could understand an aristocracy of brains, in a land like America," I went on, quite fiercely, "but it's no good breaking off from the old country at all if you're to hamper yourselves with anything else. Now if I hadn't heard Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox and Mrs.
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