And now let us talk of something else." After an hour's chat the Doctor started on his round of calls upon the ladies; the Major had not come in from the orderly room, and, after the Doctor left, Isobel Hannay was again the topic of conversation.
"She is out and out the prettiest girl in the station," the Adjutant said to some of the officers who had not seen her.

"She will make quite a sensation; and there are five or six ladies in the station, whose names I need hardly mention, who will not be very pleased at her coming.
She is thoroughly in good form, too; nothing in the slightest degree fast or noisy about her.

She is quiet and self-possessed.

I fancy she will be able to hold her own against any of them.

Clever?
I should say 'certainly'; but, of course, that is from her face rather than from anything she said.