She had such a capacity for life.
His first wife had been pale and rather anemic, while Aileen was fairly bursting with sheer physical vitality.

She hummed and jested and primped and posed.

There are some souls that just are, without previous revision or introspection.

The earth with all its long past was a mere suggestion to Aileen, dimly visualized if at all.

She may have heard that there were once dinosaurs and flying reptiles, but if so it made no deep impression on her.