But in ten years' time, when they were young women, some of them married, some of them court beauties, one of them recalled this speech to another, whom she encountered in an important house in St.Petersburg, the wife of the celebrated diplomat who was its owner being an American woman.
Bettina Vanderpoel's education was a rather fine thing.

She herself had more to do with it than girls usually have to do with their own training.

In a few months' time those in authority in the French school found that it was not necessary to supervise and expurgate her.

She learned with an interested rapacity which was at once unusual and amazing.

And she evidently did not learn from books alone.