2/8 "But we are not at all disagreeable people when you know us!" And she smiled encouragingly. "And you all seem very happy here--_sans souci_. It is good." And Ethelrida wondered. "What can make you so unhappy, you beautiful thing, with Tristram to love you, and youth and health and riches ?" And Zara thought, "This appears a sweet and most frank lady, but how can I tell? It is perhaps because she is so well bred that she is enabled to act so nicely." "You have not yet seen Wrayth, have you ?" Ethelrida went on. |