Some thought she was very rich, and maybe famous.

Everybody declared she must know a lot, anyway, and be wonderfully wise and intellectual; and they said she was probably tall and wore glasses, and would be thirty years old, at least.

But nobody guessed anywhere near what she really was.
Nurse Sarah said she should never forget the night she came, and how she looked, and how utterly flabbergasted everybody was to see her--a little slim eighteen-year-old girl with yellow curly hair and the merriest laughing eyes they had ever seen.

(Don't I know?
Don't I just love Mother's eyes when they sparkle and twinkle when we're off together sometimes in the woods ?) And Nurse said Mother was so excited the day she came, and went laughing and dancing all over the house, exclaiming over everything.

(I can't imagine that so well.