Alice Hopkins, while saying that “She was just … out of place,” says immediately thereafter that “If everyone was just trying to be nice to her,” she would be nice right back, calm and gracious—“She was self-contained.” Even Alice’s sister noticed that there was something “quite remarkable in her self-discipline—the things she made herself do. She was forever working” not only on her reading, but on her figure—she had always been “dumpy,” but now the extra weight came off, and stayed off.
