It is the walk of the Music-Hall stage, and the trick of it consists chiefly in giving, so to speak, prominence to the shoulders and oscillation to the skirts.

In fact, she was one of those ladies who ardently desire that all the world should notice them.
Further, in her conversation, she showed an acquaintance with certain phases of the English lower life which was astonishing in an American girl.

But Clara had no suspicion--none whatever.

One thing the girl did which pleased her mightily.
She was never tired of hearing about her father, and his way of looking, standing, walking, folding his hands, and holding himself.
And constantly more and more Clara detected these little tricks in his daughter.

Perhaps she learned them.
"My dear," she said, "to think that I ever thought you unlike your dear father!" So that it made her extremely uncomfortable to detect a certain reserve in Arnold toward the girl, and then a dislike of Arnold in the girl herself.