She lived on the best of terms with all the rectors' wives around her.

She had been popular with all the ladies connected with the close.

Though much the wealthiest of the ecclesiastical matrons of the county, she had so managed her affairs that her carriage and horses had given umbrage to none.

She had never thrown herself among the county grandees so as to excite the envy of other clergymen's wives.

She never talked too loudly of earls and countesses, or boasted that she gave her governess sixty pounds a year, or her cook seventy.