She was ever so much looked at; but she didn't seem to notice it, until at last I couldn't help calling attention to it.

Mr.Leverett thinks everything of it; he calls it the "costume of the future." I should call it rather the costume of the past--you know the English have such an attachment to the past.

I said this the other day to Madame do Maisonrouge--that Miss Vane dressed in the costume of the past.

_De l'an passe, vous voulez dire_?
said Madame, with her little French laugh (you can get William Platt to translate this, he used to tell me he knew so much French).
You know I told you, in writing some time ago, that I had tried to get some insight into the position of woman in England, and, being here with Miss Vane, it has seemed to me to be a good opportunity to get a little more.

I have asked her a great deal about it; but she doesn't seem able to give me much information.