Janet looked what Mrs.Crofton called "clever," and somehow she never got on with clever women.

Betty and Dolly she dismissed as of no account.
Rosamund was the one the attractive stranger liked best.

There is no greater mistake than to think that a pretty woman does not like to meet another pretty woman.

On the contrary, "like flies to like" in this, as in almost everything else.
But how did they regard her?
She would have been surprised indeed had she been able to see into their hearts.
Mr.Tosswill, who was much more wideawake than he looked, thought her a poor exchange for the amusing, lively, middle-aged woman who had last lived at The Trellis House, and who had often entertained there a pleasant, cultivated guest or two from London.

Jack, though sufficiently human to be attracted by the stranger's grace and charm, was inclined to reserve his judgment.