Let me congratulate you upon having fallen into such good hands." He glanced over Anne's head at someone on the other side of the bed, and Anne turned slightly to see the person thus indicated.

And so she had her first sight of the woman who ruled Lucas Errol's house.
She had heard of her more than once.

People smiled, not unkindly, when they mentioned Mrs.Errol, a good sort, they said; but, like many another woman of inelegant exterior, how good a sort only her Maker knew.

She was large in every way.

It was the only word that described her; large-boned, large-featured, and so stout that she wheezed--a fact which in no way limited her activity.