Every one had a high opinion of Mrs.Considine.She was not very beautiful or very clever or very fascinating or very angelic or very anything--but she was one of those women of whom everybody has a high opinion.

The impoverished widow of an Indian soldierman, with a son soldiering somewhere in India, she managed to do a great deal on very small means.

She was a woman of the world, a woman of character.

She knew how to deal with people of queer races.

Heaven indicated her for appointment by Barbara as Liosha's duenna in the Boarding House.