Her smile was as fixedly radiant as a painted cherub's.

Her figure had that exuberance and slenderness at various portions which no woman really believes in.

She looked like a beautiful doll, with an unvarying loveliness of manner and disposition under all vicissitudes of life, but she was undoubtedly something more than a doll.
Even the women listened dubiously and incredulously when she talked.
They had never heard a woman talk about such things in the way she did.

She had a fine education, being a graduate of one of the women's colleges.

She was an accomplished musician and a very successful teacher.