Winslow was a gentleman , and that Nelly Ray , whom nobody knew anything about , not even where she came from , was only a common hired girl , and he had no business to be hanging about her . She was pretty , to be sure ; but she was absurdly stuck-up and would n't associate with other Riverside `` help '' at all . Well , pride must have a fall ; there must be something queer about her when she was so awful sly as to her past life . Winslow and Nelly did not trouble themselves in the least over all this gossip ; in fact , they never even heard it . Winslow was hopelessly in love , when he found this out he was aghast . He thought of his father , the ambitious railroad magnate ; of his mother , the brilliant society leader ; of his sisters , the beautiful and proud ; he was honestly frightened . It would never do ; he must not go to see Nelly again . He kept this prudent resolution for twenty-four hours and then rowed over to the West shore . He found Nelly sitting on the bank in her old faded print dress and he straightway forgot everything he ought to have remembered . Nelly herself never seemed to be conscious of the social gulf between them . At least she never alluded to it in any way , and accepted Winslow 's attentions as if she had a perfect right to them . She had broken the record by staying with Mrs. Pennington four weeks , and even the cats were in subjection . Winslow was well enough to have gone back to the city and , in fact , his father was writing for him . But he could n't leave Beckwiths ' , apparently . At any rate he stayed on and met Nelly every day and cursed himself for a cad and a cur and a weak-brained idiot . One day he took Nelly for a row up the river . They went further than usual around the Bend . Winslow did n't want to go too far , for he knew that a party of his city friends , chaperoned by Mrs. Keyton-Wells , were having a picnic somewhere up along the river shore that day . But Nelly insisted on going on and on , and of course she had her way . When they reached a little pine-fringed headland they came upon the picnickers , within a stone 's throw .
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