Generosity of spring (metaphor)
The author uses beautiful metaphors describing the approach of summer warmth by calling the first day of spring a “lavish day”, which means that it is generous on sunlight: “the sunlight was pouring through the tall, arched windows and the flowered curtains so brightly”, “sunlight was lying in great pools on the blue cork floor and the soft rugs”. Personification of the sunlight adds romantic atmosphere to the narration, and creates a rather pleasant image.
Beautiful Mrs. Grey (metaphor)
Margaret Grey visited Kitty with purpose to give her information of her husband, and when Kitty and Jenny, the narrator, entered the room Mrs. Grey “lifted to Kitty a sallow and relaxed face the expression of which gave a sharp, pitying pang of prepossession in her favor: it was beautiful that so plain a woman should so ardently rejoice in another's loveliness.” Though she was dressed in rather poorly looking clothes, the look of her face was a proof of her good intentions, as “her gray eyes, though they were remote, as if anything worth looking at in her life had kept a long way off, were full of tenderness”.
Kitty is not the one to be fooled (simile)
When Margaret said Kitty that her husband was wounded, Kitty did not believe, as if there something would have happened to Chris the War Office would have informed her. Kitty was sure it was a trick played in front of her with a purpose to get some money, and Kitty looked at Margaret “as though she were a splendid bird of prey and this her sluggish insect food”.
Kitty is waiting (simile)
The day when Chris returned home was very difficult for Kitty and Jenny noted that her sister-in-law “looked as cold as moonlight, as virginity, but precious; the falling candle-light struck her hair to bright, pure gold”.
