Sentence:  And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she <WSD>raptured</WSD> to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.