She stood looking about her, asking herself, apparently to whom she should next speak, when Newman came up to her.
"Your mother has given me leave--very solemnly--to come here often," he said.

"I mean to come often." "I shall be glad to see you," she answered, simply.

And then, in a moment.

"You probably think it very strange that there should be such a solemnity--as you say--about your coming." "Well, yes; I do, rather." "Do you remember what my brother Valentin said, the first time you came to see me--that we were a strange, strange family ?" "It was not the first time I came, but the second," said Newman.
"Very true.

Valentin annoyed me at the time, but now I know you better, I may tell you he was right.