She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.
She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)
