I have talked with Cecilia anent the matter, and she knows not the cause.

Bess has opined that this change first appeared when it was decided that we went not to London this year, as we had talked of doing earlier in the summer.

Bess says she noted then how disappointed Kate appeared; and she is of opinion that she has never been the same since." Sir Richard stroked his beard with meditative gravity, and looked into the fire.
"It is true that the change has come upon her since that decision was made; and yet I find it something difficult to think that such was the cause.

Kate never loved the life of the city, and was wild with delight when she first tasted the sweets of freedom in these woods and gardens.

She loves her liberty right well, and has said a thousand times how glorious a thing it is to range at will as she does here.