Yet every one knew that riding was prescribed her by the doctor's orders, and they talked sarcastically of her illness.

She really was ill.

What struck me at first sight in her was her abnormal, nervous, incessant restlessness.

Alas, the poor girl was very unhappy, and everything was explained later.

To-day, recalling the past, I should not say she was such a beauty as she seemed to me then.