Self-interest with her was high, but not strong.

It was, nevertheless, her guiding characteristic.

Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class--two generations removed from the emigrant.

Books were beyond her interest--knowledge a sealed book.

In the intuitive graces she was still crude.