She was the least guileful of beings, this Sylvia, and she saw nothing amiss in these inquiries.
"I suppose they may have done so; and Mrs.Owen talked to me about going to college when I visited her." "Oh! If _she_ undertook to persuade you, then it is no wonder you decided to go.

She's a very powerful pleader, as she would put it herself." "It wasn't just that way, Mrs.Bassett.I think grandfather had already persuaded me.

Mrs.Owen didn't know of it till afterward; but she seemed to like the idea.

Her ideas about girls and women are very interesting." "Yes?
She has a very decided way of expressing herself.

I should imagine, though, that with her training and manner of life she might look a little warily at the idea of college training for women.
Personally, you understand, I am heartily in favor of it.