She says she is forty.

I always thought forty was quite old, but now it seems to me the very prettiest age.

Age doesn't really matter at all to people who have got faces and figures and manners like Pamela Reston.

They will always make whatever age they are seem the perfect age.
"I do wonder what brings her to Priorsford! I rather think that having been all her life so very 'twopence coloured' she wants the 'penny plain' for a change.

Perhaps that is why she likes The Rigs and us.
There is no mistake about our 'penny-plainness'-- it jumps to the eye! "I am just afraid she won't stay very long.