She kept Anne with her for more than an hour, and was dazzling through every moment of its passing.

She showed her the splendours she was to shine in at the birth-night ball, even bringing forth her jewels and displaying them.

She told her stories of the house of which the young heir to-day attained his majority, and mocked at the poor youth because he was ungainly, and at a distance had been her slave since his nineteenth year.
"I have scarce looked at him," she said.

"He is a lout, with great eyes staring, and a red nose.

It does not need that one should look at men to win them.