You are just exactly what I knew you would be in look, and voice, in manner and ways and everything.

Of course, it is partly from what I remember, but I really did not see a great deal of you in those days; it is from your letters, I think, entirely that I knew all about you, and exactly what you were.

Do you mean to say that I am not just what you thought I should be ?" "Well, not so clearly as all that, Isobel.

Of course you were only a little child when I saw you, and except that you had big brown eyes, and long eyelashes, I confess that it struck me that you were rather a plain little thing, and I do not think that your mother's letters since conveyed to my mind the fact that there had been any material change since.

Therefore I own that you are personally quite different from what I had expected to find you.