Her eyes were large and easily assumed a look of inquiry and innocence, such as one might expect to see in a young girl.

By disposition she was retiring; she easily obliterated herself.

She was not made for the harshness of the world, and yet she had known these harshnesses in her younger days.

Magnus had married her when she was twenty-one years old, at a time when she was a graduate of some years' standing from the State Normal School and was teaching literature, music, and penmanship in a seminary in the town of Marysville.

She overworked herself here continually, loathing the strain of teaching, yet clinging to it with a tenacity born of the knowledge that it was her only means of support.