5/52 I hope she will come to think of me as a friend. It will be delightful to watch her mind grow. I am sure she has faculties of a very delicate kind; I believe she will soon be able to appreciate literature. Has she not a strange personal charm, and is it not impossible to think of her becoming anything but a beautiful-natured woman? If she could be for a little time with you now and then, how it would help to develop the possibilities that are in her!' To the letter of which this was part, Mrs.Ormonde quickly responded: 'With regard to Miss Trent,' she said, 'I beg you not to indulge your idealistic habits of thought immoderately. |