Tina who is from an aristocratic English family believes in the new freedom for women and is an ardent follower of a group of pseudobohemians While riding through the neighboring estate of John Humphries a wealthy commoner resented by the Carteret family she is retrieved from a fall by John and blames him for the accident The following day she invites him to dinner pretending repentance but taking pleasure in ridiculing his oldfashioned dignity