Gertrude Coppard had watched him, fascinated. He was so full of color and animation; his voice ran so easily into comic grotesque, and he was so ready and so pleasant with everybody. Gertrude's own father had a rich fund of humor, but it was satiric. This man's was different: soft, non-intellectual, warm, a kind of gambling.

COMMENT: 1-could not find "gambolling" in dictionary; inference supplied the word gambling, perhaps 2-second sentence had three "run-on" sentences--punctuation incorrect