She was even, when opportunity offered, a matchmaker.
Being heiress eventually to L4,000 a year (a large income in pre-war days) and of attractive appearance, she had no lack of suitors, even though she thought modern dancing inane, and had little skill at ball-games.

I have indicated her appearance by some few phrases already; but to enable you to visualize her more definitely I might be more precise.

She was a tall woman rather than large built, like the young Juno when first wooed by Jove.

Where she departed from the Junonian type she turned towards Venus rather than Minerva; in spite of being a mathematician.

You meet with her sisters in physical beauty among the Americans of Pennsylvania, where, to a stock mainly Anglo-Saxon, is added a delicious strain of Gallic race; or you see her again among the Cape Dutch women who have had French Huguenot great grandparents.