Mohl were means of introduction to much that was interesting in the social life of Paris.

At the theatre they saw with the deepest excitement "La Dame aux Camelias," which was running its hundred nights.

Caricatures in the streets exhibited the occupants of the pit protected by umbrellas from the rain of tears that fell from the boxes.

Tears, indeed, ran down Browning's cheeks, though he had believed himself hardened against theatrical pathos.

Mrs Browning cried herself ill, and pronounced the play painful but profoundly moral.
Mrs Browning's admiration of the writings of George Sand was so great that it would have been a sore disappointment to her if George Sand were to prove inaccessible.