"I can't say that I've seen much of her, mind you, but she gave me the impression of a woman who wasn't above using the powder-puff.

She drove down here with the governor one day, and to look at her you'd have thought she was a princess come among the slums." "She was born abroad," Arnold remarked.

"I dare say this atmosphere would seem a little strange to her." "Sort of half a foreigner, I've understood," Mr.Jarvis continued.
"Speaks English all right, though.

I can't help thinking," he went on, "that the governor would have done better to have married into one of our old city families.

Nothing like them, you know, Chetwode.
Some fine women, too.