That is what Gladys means when she says you have a sympathetic face.

I wish you would get her to talk to you.' As Lady Betty persisted in haunting the Marshalls' cottage, I determined to make her useful.

So I set her to read to Elspeth, or to give sewing-lessons to Peggy, or to amuse the younger children, while I was engaged with my patient; and I soon found that she was a most helpful little body.
Mr.Hamilton found her sitting in the kitchen one day surrounded by the children.

She was telling them a story.

The baby was sucking her thumb contentedly on her lap.