Miss Kimpsey boards with the Bells now, and her relation to them has become almost daughterly.

It was a smile of almost daughterly sympathy and comradeship, friendly and innocent, and wholly irresistible.

More than her political acumen, it was her almost daughterly connection to Hillary that was her source of power.

She greeted the old man with almost daughterly affection; and then turned to Anstice with a rather forced expression of cordiality.