With an impulsive or romantic girl there is always the fear of a _fiasco_.

But this sweet child of yours has been well brought up, and knows her own value.

She behaved like a queen here, where I need not tell you society is just a little mixed; though, of course, we only cultivate our own set.

Your heart would swell with pride if you could see the way she puts down men who are not quite good style; and the ease with which she crushes those odious American girls, with their fine complexions and loud manners.
'Be assured that I shall guard her as the apple of my eye, and that the detrimental who circumvents me will be a very Satan of schemers.
'I can but smile at your mention of Carson, whose gowns used to fit us so well in our girlish days, and whose bills seem moderate compared with the exorbitant accounts I get now.
'Carson has long been forgotten, my dear soul, gone with the snows of last year.

A long procession of fashionable French dressmakers has passed across the stage since her time, like the phantom kings in Macbeth; and now the last rage is to have our gowns made by an Englishman who works for the Princess, and who gives himself most insufferable airs, or an Irishwoman who is employed by all the best actresses.