That young boy's look opened him at once; he had not to warm to her,--he flew.

Ordinarily the sweetest ladies will make us pass through cold mist and cross a stile or two, or a broken bridge, before the formalities are cleared away to grant us rights of citizenship.

She was like those frank lands where we have not to hand out a passport at the frontier and wait for dubious inspection of it.
She prevailed with cognizant men and with the frivolous.

Women were capable of appreciating her, too: as Aminta did, despite some hinted qualifications addressed shyly to her husband.

But these were the very matters exciting his particular esteem.