But she shall not do so with my consent, without indeed my downright opposition, until she has had an opportunity of testing both sides, of weighing the matter thoroughly from every point of view.

Do you not agree with me, Mr.De la Borne ?" "You speak reasonably, madam," he assented.
"Jeanne," she continued, "has perhaps charmed you a little.

She is, after all, just now a child of nature.

She is something of an artist, too.

Beautiful places and sights and sounds appeal to her.
"She is ready, with her imperfect experience, to believe that there is nothing greater or better worth cultivating in life.