Both intellectually and emotionally, therefore, Miss Machar had withered instead of ripening.

As to her spiritual carriage, she thought too much about being a lady to be thoroughly one.

The utter graciousness of the ideal lady would blush to regard itself.

She was both gentle and dignified; but would have done a nature inferior to Ginevra's injury by the way she talked of things right and wrong as becoming or not becoming in a lady of position such as Ginevra would one day find herself.

What lessons she taught her she taught her well.