She will be absolutely silent with older people--or with you and me, for instance--but if she can captivate any quite young creature, she will pour herself out to her, follow her, write to her, tease her .-- Poor, poor Alice!' Manisty's voice had become almost a groan.

His look betrayed a true and manly feeling.
'One must always remember,' he resumed, 'that she has still the power to attract a stranger.

Her mind is in ruins--but they are the ruins of what was once fine and noble.

But it is all so wild, and strange, and desperate.
A girl is first fascinated--and then terrified.

She begins by listening, and pitying--then Alice pursues her, swears her to secrecy, talks to her of enemies and persecutors, of persons who wish her death, who open her letters, and dog her footsteps--till the girl can't sleep at nights, and her own nerve begins to fail her.