Confidence between two women establishes itself through processes at once subtle and simple.

Emily Fox-Seton could not have told when she first began to know that the beauty was troubled and distressed; Lady Agatha did not know when she first slipped into making little frank speeches about herself; but these things came about.

Agatha found something like comfort in her acquaintance with the big, normal, artless creature--something which actually raised her spirits when she was depressed.

Emily Fox-Seton paid constant kindly tribute to her charms, and helped her to believe in them.

When she was with her, Agatha always felt that she really was lovely, after all, and that loveliness was a great capital.