When the older people were given their tea, she moved about their tables, attending to every one.

She was too heart-whole in her interest in her hospitalities to find time to join Lady Maria and her party at the table under the ilex-trees.

She ate some bread-and-butter and drank a cup of tea while she talked to some old women she had made friends with.

She was really enjoying herself immensely, though occasionally she was obliged to sit down for a few moments just to rest her tired feet.

The children came to her as to an omnipotent and benign being.