She felt an interest in the young woman which became an affection.

She would have felt interested in her if there had not existed a special reason to call forth sympathy.

Hester had many curious and new subjects for conversation.

Emily liked her descriptions of Indian life and her weird little stories of the natives.
She was charmed with Ameerah, whose nose rings and native dress, combining themselves with her dark mystic face, rare speech, and gliding, silent movements, awakened awe in the rustics and mingled distrust and respect in the servants' hall at Palstrey.
"She's most respectably behaved, my lady, though foreign and strange in her manners," was Jane Cupp's comment.

"But she has a way of looking at a person--almost stealthy--that's upset me many a time when I've noticed it suddenly.