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“She is good, but not too good to be likable: she has her prejudices and weak spots like everyone else, and is as unreasoning as the rest of us in her likes and dislikes. But there’s something finer than ordinary about her; a gentleness that goes right through, a deep clear sincerity…and a great sense of the ridiculous, and a liking for the queer waifs of life…” (147).