Indeed you are wonderful porcelain, you fair English girls, wonderful porcelain; but where are the stars?
Mrs.Moggridge had also remarked that Miss Strange was "very easy in her manners." This was not always the case with ladies in Coalchester, and Mrs.Moggridge did not mean the remark as an unreserved compliment.

She liked a certain stiffness in strangers.

It was not, however, in Isabel Strange's nature to oblige her in that particular.

Her way of pouring her grace into Mrs.Moggridge's great arm-chair suggested at once that she had lived there for ever so long, and to him particularly she chatted as with an old acquaintance.

You could not make a stranger of her.