Modern ideas jarred upon him.

And it was seldom that he was not with us.

The tender love between the old couple was very touching.
"It must seem strange to you, my dear, to think of such long lives so little broken by events," said my great-grandmother.

"But your dear grandfather and I have never been apart for a day since our happy marriage." I do not think they were apart for an hour whilst I was with them.

He followed her about the house, if she left him for many minutes, crying, "Victoire! Victoire!" chiefly from love, but I was sometimes spiteful enough to think also because he could not amuse himself.
"The master's calling for you again," said Elspeth, with some impatience, one day when grandmamma was teaching me a bit of dainty cookery in the kitchen.
"Oh, fly, petite!" she cried to me; "and say that his Majesty has summoned the Duchess." Much bewildered, I ran out, and met my great-grandfather on the terrace, crying, "Victoire! Victoire!" in fretful tones.
"His Majesty has summoned the Duchess, sir," said I, dropping a slight curtsy, as I generally did on disturbing the old gentleman.
To my astonishment, this seemed quite to content him.