He always avoided any close personal relationship with any of us but I could see that he was delighted with her vitality and energy.

She pleased the older Sisters by her frank and quite honest desire to be told things and the younger Sisters by her equally honest admiration of their gifts and qualities.

She was honest and sincere, I do believe, in every word and thought and action.

She had, in many ways, the naive purity, the unconsidered faith and confidence of a child still in the nursery.

She amazed me sometimes by her ignorance; she delighted me frequently by her refreshing truth and straightforwardness.