Conroth was forced to put a cap upon her vexation,
and bid her niece good-day as sweetly as though she had never dreamed
of boxing her ears.
Louise climbed the nearest stairs to the summit of the bluff. She felt
she could not meet Lawford at this time, and he was between her and the
moving picture actors.
Within the past few hours several things that had seemed stable in
Louise Grayling's life had been shaken.
She had accepted in the very first of her acquaintanceship with Lawford
Tapp the supposition that his social position was quite inferior to her
own. She was too broadly democratic to hold that as an insurmountable
barrier between them.
Her disapproval of the young man grew out of her belief in his identity
as a mere "hired man" of the wealthy owner of the villa on the Point.
She had considered that a man who was so intelligent and well educated
and at the same time so unambitious was lacking in those attributes of
character necessary to make him a success in life.
His love for the open--for the sea and shore and all that pertained to
them--coincided exactly with Louise's own aspirations.
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