Another new acquaintance is Lady Marion Alford, the Marquis of Northampton's daughter, very eager about literature and art and Robert, for all which reasons I should care for her; also Hatty calls her divine.

I thought there was the least touch of affectation of fussiness, but it may not be so.

She knelt down before Hatty the other day and gave her--placed on her finger--the most splendid ring you can imagine, a ruby in the form of a heart, surrounded and crowned with diamonds.

Hatty is frankly delighted, and says so with all sorts of fantastical exaggerations.
Tell me what you think of the photographs which Robert sends, with his best love.

I think the head perfect, and the other very poetical and picturesque.