It was only in the intellectual domain that she evinced pretentiousness and grew grandiloquent; talking of her private affairs, she was very direct and simple, with no inclination to unhealthy ways of thought.

She spoke of her birth in Canada, and her childish recollections of that country.
"I used to be rather sorry that we had come back to England, for the truth is I don't much care for Northampton, and I have never been quite comfortable with my relatives there.

But now, of course, everything is different.

It seems a great pity that I should have had such a relative as Lady Ogram and known nothing about it doesn't it?
Strange how the branches of a family lose sight of each other?
Can you tell me Lady Ogram's age ?" Constance replied that it was not far from eighty.
"Really, I should have taken her for older still.

She seems very nice; I think I shall like her.