It filled the papers with monotonous news which tired her attention--which she did not really try to understand.

Now she supposed she would have to understand it.

For George, her new brother-in-law, was sure to talk a terrible amount of shop.
Sir William was very tall certainly, and good-looking.

He had a short pointed beard, a ruddy, sunburnt complexion, blue eyes and broad shoulders--the common points of the well-born and landowning Englishman.

Bridget looked at him with a mixture of respect and hostility.