Eliza had had a rocket-like career of success in the hotel which pleased and amused her; but she felt that to forgive the Brown family for having a carriage and pair required large-mindedness while her father's carriage still stood in the unfurnished drawing-room, and even Mrs.Rexford had given up hopes of finding horses to draw it.
Very soon after, their annual arrival, Mr.and Mrs.Brown and their two daughters came kindly to call on the new English family.

Principal Trenholme found time to run over by appointment and introduce his friends.

The visitors were evidently generous-minded, wholesome sort of people, with no high development of the critical faculty, travelled, well-read, merry, and kind.

Sophia confessed to herself after the first interview that, had it not been for their faulty degree of wealth and prosperity, she would have liked them very much.

Mrs.Bennett, whose uncle had been an admiral, considered them desirable friends for her daughter, and this was another reason why, out of pure contrariness, Sophia found liking difficult; but she determined for Trenholme's sake to try--a good resolution which lasted until she had taken Blue and Red to return the call, but no longer.
"And Miss Rexford," said good Mrs.Brown, "we hear you have had the privilege of knowing Principal Trenholme for a long time before he came out here.