Mrs Greenow was good-natured, liberal, and not by nature selfish; but she was determined not to waste the good things which fortune had given, and desired that all the world should see that she had forty thousand pounds of her own.

And in doing this she was repressed by no feeling of false shame.

She never hesitated in her demands through bashfulness.

She called aloud for such comfort and grandeur as Yarmouth could afford her, and was well pleased that all around should hear her calling.

Joined to all this was her uncontrolled grief for her husband's death.
"Dear Greenow! sweet lamb! Oh, Kate, if you'd only known that man!" When she said this she was sitting in the best of Mrs Jones's sitting-rooms, waiting to have dinner announced.