People were apt to say of Olga Ratcliffe that she had a face that lighted up well.

Her ready intelligence was ardent enough to illuminate her.

No one was ever dull in her society.

Certainly in her temperament at least there was nothing colorless.

Where she loved she loved intensely, and she hated in the same way, quite thoroughly and without dissimulation.
Maxwell Wyndham, for instance, the subject of her recent conversation with Nick, she had disliked wholeheartedly from the commencement of their acquaintance, and he was perfectly aware of the fact.