You can even go into politics." She made a pretty gesture of aversion.

"Oh, I've been too well brought up! There isn't any hope for a girl who is well brought up except the church, and even there she can't do anything but sit and listen to sermons.

Mother's consolation," she added with a soft little laugh, "is that I should have been a belle and beauty in the days when Madison was President." Then putting the subject aside as if she had finished with it for ever, she began talking to him about the books she was reading.

Of all the girls he knew she was the only one who ever opened a book except one that had been forbidden.
An hour later, when Margaret went home with her father, Stephen turned back, after putting her into the car, with a warmer emotion in his heart than he had ever felt for her before.

She was not only lovely and gentle; she had revealed unexpected qualities of mind which might develop later into an attraction that he had never dreamed she could possess.