She did not mean to pry; she would not have had the daring so to do if she had possessed the inclination.

But the instant her eyes told her what they saw, she started and blushed as she had never blushed before in her tame life.

The warm rose mantled her cheeks, and even suffused the neck her chaste kerchief hid.

Her eye kindled with admiration and an emotion new to her indeed.
"How beautiful!" she said.

"He is like a young Adonis, and has the bearing of a royal prince! How can it--by what strange chance hath it come here ?" She had not regarded it more than long enough to have uttered these words, when a fear came upon her, and she felt that she had fallen into misfortune.
"What must I do with it ?" she trembled.