She was handsome, she was honest, and she was in earnest over everything.

There was something about her, or her family, that had to be told in whispers, and some of the neighbours would have nothing to do with her.

But mother said Mrs.Freshett was doing the very best she knew, and for the sake of that, and of her children, anyone who wouldn't help her was not a Christian, and not to be a Christian was the very worst thing that could happen to you.

I stared at her steadily.

She talked straight along, so rapidly you scarcely could keep up with the words; you couldn't if you wanted to think about them any between.