She knows it herself perfectly; she has had the best advice in Europe.

'It's a thing that's awful, simply awful'-- that was the only account she would give me.
Year before last, while she was at Boulogne, she went for three days with Mrs.Floyd-Taylor to Paris.

She there surreptitiously consulted the greatest man--even Mrs.Floyd-Taylor doesn't know.

Last autumn in Germany she did the same.

'First put on certain special spectacles with a straight bar in the middle: then we'll talk'-- that's practically what they say.