She bent an arch glance upon her cousin, and then made reply.
"The Lady Humbert is a fine stately dame, before whom my heart quailed mightily when first I stood before her.

Her voice is sharp; her eyes look you through and through; her frown sets you quaking, and makes you wish the earth would swallow you up.

But for all that, when once you get to know her, you find that a warm heart beats beneath her stiff bodice, and that though she will speak sharply to you before your face, she will do you many a kind act of which you know little or nothing.

Mistress Dowsabel is younger, smaller, less fearsome to the eye; indeed she is timorous and often full of fears herself.

She too is kind, though I truly think that Lady Humbert has the larger heart.