"I had a different plan.

I expected the servant would take in my card, and that you would put your heads together, before admitting me, and make out my identity." Gertrude had been wondering with a quick intensity which brought its result; and the result seemed an answer--a wondrous, delightful answer--to her vague wish that something would befall her.

"I know--I know," she said.

"You come from Europe." "We came two days ago.

You have heard of us, then--you believe in us ?" "We have known, vaguely," said Gertrude, "that we had relations in France." "And have you ever wanted to see us ?" asked the young man.
Gertrude was silent a moment.