Chapter V.—The First Step on the LadderFor the agreed six months Dora was in attendance upon Sir Robert at his consulting-rooms, but there was no doubt she was disappointed with the result, as she had soon come to realise what a priceless little fool she had been to have ever imagined that it might bring her the opportunity, upon which she had set her heart, of making a good marriage.
Certainly she was working among the very class she had wanted to, as hardly a day passed without her being brought in contact with some of the best of titled society people, many of whose names were so often mentioned in the social columns of the newspapers. Still, they were nearly all either old or elderly and, apart from that, she met them only as Sir Robert's nurse, and, their attendance at his consulting
