Greville, turning round,
showed a very pleasant face as she bowed to Miss Fosbrook, and
shaking hands with Susan and Elizabeth, asked with much solicitude
after their mamma, and how lately they had heard of her.
Susan was too simple and straightforward to be shy, and answered
readily, that they had had letters, and Mamma had been sadly tired by
the journey, but was better the next day. The little girls shook
hands; and Mrs. Greville made a kind of introduction by nodding
towards her companion, and murmuring something about "Fraulein
Munsterthal;" and Miss Fosbrook found herself walking beside a lady
with the least of all bonnets, a profusion of fair hair, and a good-
humoured, one-coloured face, no doubt Miss Ida's German governess.
She said something about the fine day, and received an answer, but
what it was she could not guess, whether German, French, or English,
and her own knowledge of the two first languages was better for
reading than for speaking; so after an awkward attempt or two, she
held her peace and looked at her companions.
Susan and Mrs. Greville seemed to be getting on very well together;
but Elizabeth's admiration of Ida seemed to be speechless, for they
were walking side by side without a word, perhaps too close to their
elders to talk.
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