In all circumstances, she more and more clearly saw it, Miss Buchanan would impose her own standards, and be oppressed or enlightened by none.

Althea had always thought of herself as very calm and strong; it was as calm and strong that Franklin Winslow Kane so worshipped her; but when she talked to Miss Buchanan she had sharp shoots of suspicion that she was, in reality, weak and wavering.
Althea's accounts of her friends in England seemed to interest Miss Buchanan even less than her accounts of Bayreuth.

She had met Miss Buckston, but had only a vague and, evidently, not a pleasant impression of her.

Lady Blair she had never heard of, nor the inmates of Grimshaw Rectory.

The Collings were also blanks, except that Mrs.Colling had an uncle, an old Lord Taunton; and when Althea put forward this identifying fact, Helen said that she knew him and liked him very much.
'I suppose you know a great many people,' said Althea.
Yes, Miss Buchanan replied, she supposed she did.