Thane was the second. Barbara went to return the Thanes’ call in some trepidation. She expected—on the information received from Mrs. Dance—to find a querulous invalid and a downtrodden daughter, but the Thanes were “not a bit like that.” Mrs. Thane was a woman who had seen a great deal of trouble; she was disciplined to suffering; she was calm and patient; she bore her semi-invalid life and occasional pain with cheerfulness and fortitude. It was not the life she would have chosen (for she had an active mind and was intensely interested in People and Things), but she made the best of it and created a little world of her own. She could not go out into the world, but she created an atmosphere round about her, and the world came to her. Candia Thane was a large young woman, rather awkward in limb and tactless in speech. She was full of undisciplined vitality; impulsive and—to some people of lesser stamina—overpowering. Barbara liked them both (she had lots of stamina, of course).
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