But Lali's real instructors were Mrs.Armour and Richard--, her best, Richard.
The first few days she made but little progress, for everything was strange to her, and things made her giddy--the servants, the formal routine, the handsome furnishings, Marion's music, the great house, the many precise personal duties set for her, to be got through at stated times; and Mrs.Armour's rather grand manner.

But there was the relief to this, else the girl had pined terribly for her native woods and prairies; this was the park, the deer, the lake, the hares, and birds.
While she sat saying over after Mrs.Armour words and phrases in English, or was being shown how she must put on and wear the clothes which a dressmaker from Regent Street had been brought to make, her eyes would wander dreamily to the trees and the lake and the grass.

They soon discovered that she would pay no attention and was straightway difficult to teach if she was not placed where she could look out on the park.
They had no choice, for though her resistance was never active it was nevertheless effective.
Presently she got on very swiftly with Richard.

For he, with instinct worthy of a woman, turned their lessons upon her own country and Frank.
This cost him something, but it had its reward.

There was no more listlessness.