She is an extremely clever woman! She knows that caricature is not argument.' 'But what has happened to Mrs.Burgoyne ?' said the Marchesa to Lucy, throwing up her hands, 'Such a change! I was so distressed--' 'You think she looks ill ?' said Lucy quickly.
Her troubled eyes sought those kind ones looking down upon her almost in appeal.

Instinctively the younger woman, far from home and conscious of a hidden agony of feeling, threw herself upon the exquisite maternity that breathed from the elder.

'Oh! if I could tell you!--if you could advise me!' was the girl's unspoken cry.
'She looks terribly ill--to me,' said the Marchesa, gravely.

'And the winter had done her so much good.

We all loved her here.