Consummate as an ornament of the drawing-room, she would be no less admirably at ease on the tennis lawn, in the boat, on horseback, or walking by the seashore.
Beyond criticism her breeding; excellent her education.

There appeared, too, in her ordinary speech, her common look, a real amiability of disposition; one could not imagine her behaving harshly or with conscious injustice.

Her manners--within the recognised limits--were frank, spontaneous; she had for the most part a liberal tone in conversation, and was evidently quite incapable of bitter feeling on any everyday subject.

Piers Otway bent before her with unfeigned reverence; she dazzled him, she delighted and confused his senses.

As often as he dared look at her, his eye discovered some new elegance in her attitude, some marvel of delicate beauty in the details of her person.