They polished and moulded her taste; and put her on her mettle to answer them, and gradually they grew to be an absorbing interest.

He selected the books she was to read, and sent her boxes of them.

It had been agreed before he left that he would not return to Heronac for some time; but that in late October, when the Princess and Mr.Cloudwater got back to Paris, that if they could be persuaded to come to London, Sabine would accompany them, and make the acquaintance of Henry's mother and some of his family--who would be in ignorance of there being any tie between them, and the whole thing could be done casually and with good sense.
"I want my mother and my sisters to love you, darling," Henry wrote, "without a prejudiced eye.

My mother would find you perfect, whatever you were like, if she knew that you were my choice--and for the same reason my sisters would perhaps find fault with you; so I want you to make their conquest without any handicap." Sabine, writing one of her long letters to Moravia in Italy, said: I am very happy, Morri.

This calm Englishman is teaching me such a number of new aspects of life, and making me more determined than ever to be a very great lady in the future.