11/19 I've seen her but three times and I don't seem able to shake off the spell. Her sisters, you know--the married ones--are nothing to look at, and the Grand Duke isn't a beauty by any means. How the deuce she happens to produce such a contrast I can't, for the life of me, understand. Nature does some marvellous things, by George, and she certainly spread herself on the Princess Genevra. |