Entertainment she found in abundance.

Though natural beauty made little if any appeal to her, she interested herself greatly in Vesuvius, regarding it as a serio-comic phenomenon which could only exist in a country inhabited by childish triflers.

Her memory was storing all manner of Italian absurdities--everything being an absurdity which differed from English habit and custom--to furnish her with matter for mirthful talk when she got safely back to Manchester and civilization.

With respect to the things which Jacob was constraining himself to study--antiquities, sculptures, paintings, stored in the Naples museum--her attitude was one of jocose indifference or of half-tolerant contempt.

Puritanism diluted with worldliness and a measure of common sense directed her views of art in general.