'Out of sight, out of mind,' you say.

Take care! I am more mistrustful than you.

Are you very sure that Antoinette may not be a slyboots?
"What is certain is, that I received a charming epistle from her, in which there is no more mention of M.Larinski than if Poland and the Pole did not exist.

She praises Engadine; she pretends that she would ask for nothing better than to end her days in a pine-forest.

I can read between the lines that it would be a pine-forest after her own heart, where there would be reunions, balls, guests to dinner, small parties, a conservatory of music, and the opera.