HAMIL IS SILENT Late in the autumn his aunt wrote Hamil from Sapphire Springs: "There seems to be a favourable change in Shiela.

Her aversion to people is certainly modified.

Yesterday on my way to the hot springs I met her with her trained nurse, Miss Lester, face to face, and of course meant to pass on as usual, apparently without seeing her; but to my surprise she turned and spoke my name very quietly; and I said, as though we had parted the day before--'I hope you are better'; and she said, 'I think I am'-- very slowly and precisely like a person who strives to speak correctly in a foreign tongue.

Garry, dear, it was too pathetic; she is so changed--beautiful, even more beautiful than before; but the last childish softness has fled from the delicate and almost undecided features you remember, and her face has settled into a nobler mould.

Do you recollect in the Munich Museum an antique marble, by some unknown Greek sculptor, called 'Head of a Young Amazon'?
You must recall it because you have spoken to me of its noble and almost immortal loveliness.