"It must be very interesting to know her.

I don't feel as if I ever could." "Ah, you will know her well; you will become great friends," Felix declared, as if this were the easiest thing in the world.
"She is very graceful," said Gertrude, looking after the Baroness, suspended to her father's arm.

It was a pleasure to her to say that any one was graceful.
Felix had been looking about him.

"And your little cousin, of yesterday," he said, "who was so wonderfully pretty--what has become of her ?" "She is in the parlor," Gertrude answered.

"Yes, she is very pretty." She felt as if it were her duty to take him straight into the house, to where he might be near her cousin.