She takes the trouble to appear not to understand, but her conduct, half an hour afterwards, reassures you completely--oh, completely! However, it is the tall one, the one of the private lessons, that is the most remarkable.

These private lessons, my good Prosper, are the most brilliant invention of the age, and a real stroke of genius on the part of Miss Miranda! They also take place in the _petit salon_, but with the doors tightly closed, and with explicit directions to every one in the house that we are not to be disturbed.

And we are not, my good Prosper; we are not! Not a sound, not a shadow, interrupts our felicity.

My _cousine_ is really admirable; the shop deserves to succeed.

Miss Miranda is tall and rather flat; she is too pale; she hasn't the adorable _rougeurs_ of the little Anglaise.