Charlotte! Come here, I want to ask you something." Charlotte Benson came, and with her came Henrietta.

I was sitting on the sofa between the parlor-doors, and could not help hearing the whole conversation, as they were standing immediately before me.
"Mr.Langenau proposes to us to read an hour a day with him in German.
What do you think about it ?" "Charming," said Charlotte with enthusiasm.

"I cannot think of anything that would give me greater pleasure.

Henrietta and I have read in German together for two winters, and it will be enchanting to continue it with such a master as Mr.Langenau." Henrietta murmured her satisfaction, and then Charlotte rushed into plans for the course, leaving me in despair, supposing I had been forgotten.

What place I was to find in such advanced society I could not well imagine.
Mr.Langenau never turned his head in my direction, and talked with Miss Benson with so much earnestness about the books into which they were to plunge, that I could not convince myself that all this was undertaken solely that he might teach me German.