You cared for him and explained to him the difficulties in his lessons which he was unable to do for himself.

The boy grew very fond of you.

He spoke to you of your beloved, and he spoke to her of you, and he was always praising each of you to the other.

The grandfather, the uncle, the aunt, the governess, the domestics who never took their eyes off the girl for an instant, had no idea that she was already involved in a love affair.

But amazing is the ingenuity of love and lovers! You knew that none of the older members of the family understood the classical language of the orators, and the girl loved so dearly that she did not consider it too great a labour to learn a dead tongue which could be of no further use to her in order to be able to say to her beloved: _Ego te in aeternum amabo!_ One must admit that that was a great and noble sacrifice.