"She took up most as much room as two people, and it's awful the way she looks on the dark side of things." There was an amused twinkle in the newcomer's eyes.

She was a much younger woman than the one whose place she had taken, and evidently it was no trial for her to be sociable before breakfast.

In a few minutes she knew all about the promised land to which the little pilgrim was journeying, and showed such friendly interest in the wedding and the other delights in store for her that Mary lingered over her toilet as long as possible, in order to prolong the pleasure of having such an attentive audience.
But she found others just as attentive before the day was over.

The grateful mother whose baby she played with, welcomed her advances as she would have welcomed sunshine on a rainy day.

The tired tourists who yawned over their time-tables, found her enthusiastic interest in everybody the most refreshing thing they had met in their travels.