Did you ever see anything so thrilling, so splendid, that you felt you must possess it ?"--She asked me that with her hand upon my arm!--"Well, that is it.

I have felt that way towards a horse which has won a great race, and to a woman who has carried me with her through the fantastic drama of her dance, until she stood at the climax, head thrown back, face glowing--a statue.

It is grand to be eloquent like that, not in words, but in person." In this was the key to her own nature.

Body and mind she was free from ordinary morbidness, unless her dislike of all suffering was morbid.
With her this was a dislike of any shock to the senses.

She was selfish at all points.
These conclusions were pursued at the expense of speech on my part.
At first she did not appear to regard my silence.