Her husband, described as "a very sensible Man who took great Delight in improving his Wife," having completed his task, disappears from the story and leaves her to pass on his improvements, to the "nine young Ladies commited to her Care." She is "about forty Years old, tall and genteel in her Person, though somewhat inclined to Fat," and her "lively and commanding Eye" (more human, if less hypnotic than Mrs. Mason's) "created an Awe in all her little Scholars, except when she condescended to smile and talk familiarly with them."
