I liked her very much, though I think now she was something of a hypocrite.

But she had enough principle to make things very respectable, and I never took her for a friend.

We had very pretty little dinners, and little evenings when anybody wanted them, though the house wasn't very large.

My duenna (by name Throckmorton) liked journeys as well as I did, and never objected to going anywhere.

Altogether we were very comfortable.
The people whom I had known in that first year of my social existence, had drifted away from me a good deal in this new life.