She was a gentle girl, with an affectionate, yielding disposition, tending towards indolence and self-indulgence.

Her aunt's chief concern about her was that she should be frocked and mannered as became her position.

Her education was committed to a very select young ladies' school, where only the daughters of the first families ever entered.

What or how they were taught, her aunt never inquired.

She felt quite sure that the lady principal would resent, as indeed she ought, any such inquiry.