She was so manifestly unfitted to take her own part that somebody else invariably took it for her.
Verity Richmond, who, with Nora, Filomena and Ingred, represented VA.

in the hostel, was a brisk, up-to-date, go-ahead girl, full of fun and high spirits.

She was a capital mimic, and had a turn for repartee that, quite good-naturedly, laid any adversary flat in the dust.

If Nora and Fil were like rose and lily, she was decidedly the robin of the party.

Her fair complexion seemed to add force to the brightness of her twinkling brown eyes, and her general restlessness and quick alert ways made one think of a bird always hopping about.