In this latter respect, she was extremely matured, and he found her almost too staid and too grave for her age.

These particulars delighted Clotilde, and finished instilling into her heart a peace she had never yet enjoyed.
The count's letters were not less reassuring for the future than the present.

He did not think it necessary, he said, to urge Julia on the subject of her reconciliation with her step-father; but he felt that she was quite ready for it.

He was, besides, preparing her more and more for it by conversing habitually with her of the old friendship that united him to Monsieur de Lucan, of their past life, of their travels, of the perils they had braved together.

Not only did Julia hear these narratives without revolt, but she often solicited them, as if she had regretted her prejudices, and had sought good reasons to forget them.
"Come, Pylades, speak to me of Orestes!" she would say.
After having spent the whole winter season and part of the spring in Italy, Monsieur and Madame de Moras visited Switzerland, announcing their intention of sojourning there until the middle of summer.