He is very learned, and has a great desire for information; he appreciates a great many of my remarks, and after dinner, in the salon, he often comes to me to ask me questions about them.

I have to think a little, sometimes, to know what I did say, or what I do think.

He takes you right up where you left off; and he is almost as fond of discussing things as William Platt is.

He is splendidly educated, in the German style, and he told me the other day that he was an "intellectual broom." Well, if he is, he sweeps clean; I told him that.

After he has been talking to me I feel as if I hadn't got a speck of dust left in my mind anywhere.