She is coming in to spend the evening.' 'Where did you meet her?
How long have you known her ?' asked Aunt Julia, evidently unimpressed.
Althea said that she had met her here, but that they had mutual friends, thinking of Miss Buckston in what she felt to be an emergency.
Aunt Julia, with her air of general scepticism as to what she could find so worth while in Europe, often made her embark on definitions and declarations.

She could certainly tolerate no uncertainty on the subject of Helen's worth.
'Very odd looking,' said Aunt Julia, while the girls glanced round indifferently at the subject of discussion.
'And peculiarly distinguished looking,' said Althea.

'She makes most people look so half-baked and insignificant.' 'I think it a rather sinister face,' said Aunt Julia.

'And how she slouches! Sit up, Mildred.

I don't want you to catch European tricks.' But, after dinner, Althea felt that Helen made her impression.