Though slenderly fashioned, she was so gloriously strong.

'Not a day of illness in her life,' said Mrs Yule, and one could readily believe it.
She spoke with such a sweet decision.

Her 'I love you!' was a bond with eternity.

In the simplest as in the greatest things she saw his wish and acted frankly upon it.

No pretty petulance, no affectation of silly-sweet languishing, none of the weaknesses of woman.