10/38 Is she good-looking ?" "Very; she was the pencil sketch for Felicia." "About how old ?" "It is difficult to tell. She is one of the women who are sixty in the sun and thirty in the shade, like the thermometer in spring. I should think she is really an easy five-and-forty, accelerated by limited means and an exacting conscience. She is always bothering about sins and draughts and things of that kind. I believe she thinks that everything you do will either make your soul too hot or your body too cold." "You are severe on the excellent lady." "I try not to be, because I think she is really good in her way; but her religion is such a dreadfully fussy kind of religion it makes me angry. |