But, apparently, she still felt sure of her position, for she said, "If it had happened, I should have been transformed [transported] with glee." And earlier, when she was a little maid of five years, she informed a visitor that she had been in a church only once, and that was the time when Clara was "crucified" [christened]....
In Heidelberg, when Susy was six, she noticed that the Schloss gardens were populous with snails creeping all about everywhere.

One day she found a new dish on her table and inquired concerning it, and learned that it was made of snails.

She was awed and impressed, and said: "Wild ones, mamma ?" She was thoughtful and considerate of others--an acquired quality, no doubt.

No one seems to be born with it.

One hot day, at home in Hartford, when she was a little child, her mother borrowed her fan several times (a Japanese one, value five cents), refreshed herself with it a moment or two, then handed it back with a word of thanks.