She entered into a discourse on botany with the gentle Mrs. Dent. It seemed Mrs. Dent had not studied that science: though, as she said, she liked flowers, "especially wild ones;" Miss Ingram had, and she ran over its vocabulary with an air.
Così incominciò a parlar di botanica con la dolce signora Dent, che certo non l'aveva studiata. La signorina Ingram, invece, era padrona di quella scienza e la sbalordì con le sue cognizioni.