She cannot have found much amusement among dusty troopers or at that court at Carlsruhe.
Our French milliner there has helped in retarding her quite against her will.

She has had to choose a balldress for the raw mountain-girl they have with them, and get her fitted, and it's a task! Why take her to the ball?
But the admiral's infatuated with this girl, and won't hear of her exclusion--because, he says, she understands a field of battle; and the Ducal party have taken to her.

Ah, Russett, you should not have flown! No harm, only Henrietta does require a trifle of management.

She writes, that she is sure of you for the night at the Schloss.' 'Why, ma'am ?' 'You have given your word.

"He never breaks his lightest word," she says.' 'It sounds like the beginning of respect.' 'The rarest thing men teach women to feel for them!' 'A respectable love match--eh?
Good Lord! You'll be civil to my friend.
You have struck him to the dust.