There was a thoughtfulness about her which alone showed that she was a woman of no ordinary power.

She foresaw all necessities, and made provision for all emergencies.

Another would not have secured an eligible sitting, and been at home in Yarmouth church, till half the period of her sojourn there was over.

But Mrs Greenow had done it all.

She walked up the middle aisle with as much self-possession as though the chancel had belonged to her family for years; and the respectable pew-opener absolutely deserted two or three old ladies whom she was attending, to show Mrs Greenow into her seat.