I like the spirit.

It strikes me as American in the best sense--that young longing to make up in some way for her deficiencies and lack of opportunities, that gallant determination to get the better of her upbringing and her surroundings.

A fight always appeals to me, you know.
I like the courage that is in the girl--I am sure it is courage--and her straightforward effort to get the best out of life, to learn the things she was never taught, to make herself over if need be." "Is this Patty Vetch, Corinna, or your own dramatic instinct ?" "Oh, it's Patty Vetch! I had no interest in her whatever.

Why should I have had?
But I liked the way she went straight as a dart at the thing she wanted.

There was no affectation about her, no pretence of being what she was not.