He found her at an assembly which she often frequented.

"She was seated," he says, "among those ladies who are generally her companions, and appeared like a beautiful rose surrounded with flowers smaller and less blooming." Her air was more touching than usual.

She was dressed perfectly plain, and without pearls or garlands, or any gay colour.

Though she was not melancholy, she did not appear to have her wonted cheerfulness, but was serious and thoughtful.

She did not sing, as usual, nor speak with that voice which used to charm every one.