"What a lot you do know, Adele!"
"But through a series of unhappy accidents involving the family fortunes was obliged to earn her own living."
"Is that all?"
"Isn't it enough?"
"Plenty. Simple, succinct, stupendous! It has only one flaw."
"And that, if you please?" Mrs. Standish demanded, bristling a trifle.
"It ain't possible for anyone to be prominent socially in a place named Massillon, Ohio. It can't be done--not in a place I never heard of before."
"Do you understand, Miss Manwaring?" the woman asked, turning an impatient shoulder to her brother.
"Perfectly," Sally assented eagerly; "only--who is Edna English?"
"Mrs. Cornwallis English. You must have heard of her."