She disliked no one, was bored by no one.

The joy of her home-coming seemed to halo them all.

Even the sour Miss Bertrams could not annoy her; she thought them sensible and clever; even the tiresome Mrs.Minchin of Minchin Hall, the "gusher" of the county, who "adored" all mankind and ill-treated her step-daughter, even she was dubbed "very kind," till Mrs.Roughsedge, next day, kindled a passion in the girl's eyes by some tales of the step-daughter.

Mrs.Colwood wondered whether, indeed, she _could_ be bored, as Mrs.Minchin had not achieved it.

Those who talk easily and well, like Diana, are less keenly aware, she thought, of the platitudes of their neighbors.