"So dignified, so handsome, and so clever!" And Avery agreed, not without reserve, that she certainly resembled him to a marked degree.
She was by far the most sober member of the party that entered Rodding Park that afternoon.

Avery, inspired by the merriment around her, was in a frankly frivolous mood.

She was fast friends with the two elder boys, who had voted her a brick on the night that she had intervened to deliver them from the just retribution for their misdeeds.

They had conceived an immense admiration for her which placed her in a highly privileged position.
"If Mrs.Denys says so, it is so," was Ronald's fiat, and she knew that such influence as he possessed with his brothers and sisters was always at her disposal.
She liked Ronald.

The boy was a gentleman.