You won't?" "Never, mamma, none," answered Kitty, flushing a little, and looking her mother straight in the face, "but there's no use in my telling you anything, and I...I...if I wanted to, I don't know what to say or how...I don't know..." "No, she could not tell an untruth with those eyes," thought the mother, smiling at her agitation and happiness.

The princess smiled that what was taking place just now in her soul seemed to the poor child so immense and so important.

After dinner, and till the beginning of the evening, Kitty was feeling a sensation akin to the sensation of a young man before a battle.

Her heart throbbed violently, and her thoughts would not rest on anything.

She felt that this evening, when they would both meet for the first time, would be a turning point in her life.