"And now, Susie," said Bettina, "scold me well, I expect it, I have deserved it."
"Scold you! Why?"
"You are going to say, I am sure, that I have been too familiar with that young man."
"No, I shall not say that. From the first day that young man has made the most favorable impression upon me; he inspires me with perfect confidence."
"And so he does me."
"I am persuaded that it would be well for us both to try to make a friend of him."
"With all my heart, as far as I am concerned, so much the more as I have seen many young men since we have lived in France. Oh! yes, I have, indeed! Well! this is the first, positively the first, in whose eyes I have not clearly read, 'Oh, how glad I should be to marry the millions of that little person!' That was written in the eyes of all the others, but not in his eyes. Now, here we are at home again. Good-night, Susie— to-morrow."
Mrs. Scott went to see and kiss her sleeping children.
Bettina remained long, leaning on the balustrade of her balcony.
"It seems to me," said she, "that I am going to be very fond of this place."