in the attitude of the company; they looked at the young Englishmen
with an air of animated sympathy and interest; they smiled,
brightly and unanimously, at everything either of the visitors said.
Lord Lambeth and his companion felt that they were being made
very welcome. Mrs. Westgate seated herself between them, and,
talking a great deal to each, they had occasion to observe
that she was as pretty as their friend Littledale had promised.
She was thirty years old, with the eyes and the smile of a girl
of seventeen, and she was extremely light and graceful,
elegant, exquisite. Mrs. Westgate was extremely spontaneous.
She was very frank and demonstrative and appeared always--
while she looked at you delightedly with her beautiful
young eyes--to be making sudden confessions and concessions,
after momentary hesitations.

"We shall expect to see a great deal of you," she said to Lord
Lambeth with a kind of joyous earnestness. "We are very fond
of Englishmen here; that is, there are a great many we have been
fond of. After a day or two you must come and stay with us;
we hope you will stay a long time. Newport's a very nice place
when you come really to know it, when you know plenty of people.
Of course you and Mr. Beaumont will have no difficulty about that.
Englishmen are very well received here; there are almost always
two or three of them about. I think they always like it,
and I must say I should think they would. They receive ever
so much attention. I must say I think they sometimes get spoiled;
but I am sure you and Mr. Beaumont are proof against that.
My husband tells me you are a friend of Captain Littledale;
he was such a charming man. He made himself most agreeable here,
and I am sure I wonder he didn't stay. It couldn't have been