“From books, no; from observation, yes.”
“Her manners?”
“Observation had educated them.”
“Accent?”
“She is sufficiently polyglot to have none.”
“She dresses and talks and behaves generally like a lady?”
“She does,” said I.
“In what way then does she differ from the women of our class?”
“She is less schooled, less reticent, franker, more natural. What is on her tongue to say, she says.”
“Temper?”