Never before had she known any one all unencumbered, unbound, by facts.

Most people were rendered commonplace by the commonplace things one knew about them.
But Ann was as interesting as one's brain could make her.

Anything one choose to think--or say--about Ann could just as well as not be true.

It swept one all unchained out into a virgin land of fancy.
There was but one question.

Could Ann keep within hailing distance of one's imagination?
Did Ann have it in her to live up to the things one wished to believe about her?
Was she capable of taking unto herself the past and temperament with which one would graciously endow her?
Katie's sense of justice forced from her the admission that it was expecting a good deal of Ann.