She was gifted with rare talents, had a keen sense of the ridiculous, a ready insight into the weaknesses of individual character, and a most fiery and ungovernable temper.

Her tongue and her pen were equally sharp.

Highbred, proud, brilliant, witty, and with a will that bent every one else to her purpose, she took Lincoln captive.

He was a rising politician, fresh from the people, and possessed of great power among them.

Miss Todd was of aristocratic and distinguished family, able to lead through the awful portals of 'good society' whomsoever they chose to countenance.