9/13 Unfortunately most of her income died with her. She is the most happy change from the ordinary modern girl. Her manners are delightful--not noisy, but frank and gay like a nice boy's. She neither falls into the Scylla of affectation nor the Charybdis of off-handness. She has been nowhere and seen very little; books are her world, and she talks of book-people as if they were everyday acquaintances. |