Her sympathies were easily awakened and her purse was well filled and readily opened.
Small families or large ones, newly born infants or newly buried ones, old women with "bad legs" and old men who needed comforts, equally touched her heart.

She innocently bestowed sovereigns where an Englishwoman would have known that half-crowns would have been sufficient.

As the vicaress was her almoner that lady felt her importance rapidly on the increase.

When she left a cottage saying, "I'll speak to young Lady Anstruthers about you," the good woman of the house curtsied low and her husband touched his forehead respectfully.
But this did not advance the fortunes of Sir Nigel, who personally required of her very different things.

Two weeks after her arrival at Stornham, Rosalie began to see that somehow she was regarded as a person almost impudently in the wrong.