She wondered how she could ever have been so silly.
"I ought to have been warned," she thought, trying to throw the blame on to somebody else.

"No one ever suggested she'd be like this.

The editor of the magazine really shouldn't have persuaded us to write.

It's all his fault in the beginning." Though the rest of the girls were scarcely impressed with Rona's personality, they were not utterly repelled.
"She's rather pretty," ventured Lizzie Lonsdale.

"Her eyes are the bluest I've ever seen." "And her teeth are so white and even," added Beth Broadway.