It may be so; but I am inclined to think, from my first sight of her, that she is a nature that will gather from life rather what stimulates it than what dulls and vulgarises it.
Altogether, when I compare my first impressions of her with the image of her left by your letters, I feel that I have been pleasantly surprised.
Only in the matter of intelligence.

Otherwise it has, of course, been your descriptions of her that have planted and nurtured in me that strong sense of attraction which blossomed into liking at the moment of personal contact.' * * * * * '_August_ 10.
'This afternoon we have been out in the gondola belonging to this modest establishment, with our magnificent gondolier, Piero, and his boy to convey us to the Lido.

I got Miss Bretherton to talk to me about her Jamaica career.

She made us all laugh with her accounts of the blood-and-thunder pieces in which the audiences at the Kingston theatre revelled.

She seems generally to have played the Bandit's Daughter, the Smuggler's Wife, or the European damsel carried off by Indians, or some other thrilling elemental personage of the kind.