The sea washed up a medusa to the shore--give it me! They surprised a crab in the act of shedding his armor--show me! A ride on donkeys to a neighboring village reminded him of a students' picnic at Heidelberg--tell me about it! Such of his peculiarities of temper as she did not understand, she guessed at and felt with her fine womanly instinct.

If at Ault she had been extremely simple in her dress, here she was almost exaggeratedly so.

She banished the "kohl" with which she had underlined her brilliant eyes, and strewed the violet powder to the four winds, as soon as she discovered that he preferred to stroke her full, firm cheeks when they were guiltless of powder.

She dropped her former freedom of speech, gave up the telling of highly-spiced anecdotes, and checked her roving glances and the frolicsome imps--somewhat too deeply versed in Boccaccio--that haunted her lively brain, when she saw that he took umbrage at anything the least risky.

Her cigarettes horrified him, so she threw them out of the window, and never smoked again.