"Forgive me--I knew it--there are doubting Thomases everywhere--and I'm a woman who deals with facts, so that I can use them to the confusion of enemies.

Now I have them.
Ser Federigo's watch and chain.

Nicht wahr ?" Remember, you who judge this sensible woman of forty-three, that she had fallen in love with Paul in the most unreprehensible way in the world; and if a woman of that age cannot fall in love with a boy sweetly motherwise, what is the good of her?
She longed to prove that her polyhedral crystal of a paragon radiated pure light from every one of his innumerable facets.

It was a matter of intense joy to turn him round and find each facet pure.

There was also much pity in her heart, such as a woman might feel for a wounded bird which she had picked up and nursed in her bosom and healed.