"She could not help but feel a little quiet..."

As Carolina Broude, the Holland family's former maid, is climbing her way up in the social rankings she receives and invitation from a much older and much wealthier man to go to the opening night of the opera. She accepts but not because of a desire for the company of the man extending her the invitation to the elegant event. Her true desire for attending is to be among the wealthy and to prepare herself to impress the man she really loves. "She could not help but feel a little quiet surrounded by people who ordered girls like her around from their first waking moments..."(108) When Carolina arrives at the mans box she finds that they will not be spending the evening alone, the box was full of some of the wealthiest men in New York and in the world. It seemed that they all had interest in Carolina, but being unaccustomed to such situations she did not know how to react. As a maid she was invisible but now she does not have her uniform to hide behind. Her reaction to the attention she gets at the opera, insecure, shows that although she may look it she is not yet a true lady of high society New York. Also she may be among the elite but inside she is still the girl she was raised as,not the daughter of a wealthy iron smelter in California. She is really a modest maid who does not wear fancy gowns or goes to the opera. I think that her lies will soon be found out and her time in the upper class will soon be a memory.