Madame was markedly civil to them, and even addressed them from time to time as "bons enfants," in imitation of our phrase "dear boys"; but more frequently, in watching the terms on which they lived with the family, she would throw up her little brown hands and exclaim, "_Menage extraordinaire!_" I am sure she thought us a strange household in more ways than one, but I think she grew fond of us.

For Eleanor she had always had a liking; about Eleanor's mother she became rhapsodical.
"How good!" so she cried to me, "and how truthful--how altogether truthful! What talents also, my faith! Miss Arkwright has had great advantages.

A mother extraordinary!" Mrs.Arkwright had many discussions with Madame on political subjects, and also on the education of girls.

On the latter their views were so essentially different, that the discussion was apt to wax hot.

Madame came at last to allow that for English girls Madame Arkwright's views might be just, but _pour les filles francaises_--she held to her own opinions.
With the boys she got on very well.