What is the central idea in the section "A Famous Visitor"?

Based on her speech in the excerpt ,what can we infer about francesca

Precarious subsistence voracious abysmal wood is to fire as food is to arrowright grinning is to cheerful as teetering is to arrowright conniving is to scheming as terrible is to arrowright mournful is to sad as gluttonous is to arrowright

How is the word laud and welcome different