What do you mean by 'something ?'" "Madame is pretty, certainly." "No doubt of it." "Yet not altogether beautiful." "No, but as she grows older, she will probably become strikingly beautiful.

You must have remarked the change which a few years have already made in her.

Her beauty will improve more and more; she is now only sixteen years of age.

At fifteen I was, myself, very thin; but even as she is at present, Madame is very pretty." "And consequently others have remarked it." "Undoubtedly, for a woman of ordinary rank is noticed--and with still greater reason a princess." "She has been well brought up, I suppose ?" "Madame Henriette, her mother, is a woman somewhat cold in manner, slightly pretentious, but full of noble thoughts.

The princess's education may have been neglected, but her principles, I believe, are good.