And she always puts on her prettiest dresses, and she's very particular about her shoes, and her hats, that they're becoming, and all that.

Oh, I'm so excited! And I'm having such a good time watching them! Oh, I don't mean watching them in a disagreeable way, so that they _see_ it; and, of course, I don't listen--not the sneak kind of listening.

But, of course, I have to get all I can--for the book, you know; and, of course, if I just happen to be in the window-seat corner in the library and hear things accidentally, why, that's all right.
And I have heard things.
He says her eyes are lovely.

He likes her best in blue.

He's very lonely, and he never found a woman before who really understood him.
He thinks her soul and his are tuned to the same string.