The Sundered Streams

“The new-made Darnleys, James and his sister, were triumphantly ushered into the upper world by Lady Adela, whose father's rise, whose mother's persistence, had won at last a reluctant toleration from her betters. Accustomed from her birth to live on terms of acquaintance with more or less interesting or conspicuous people, Lady Adela had developed something of that native air and ease which James Dadd had never been able to acquire in all his long exile from his own social hemisphere.”