With fatherly solicitude he waited and listened.

Her hair had its untarnished golden glow, Her beauty was unchanged, but her sweet mouth Had caught a touch of pathos in its smile; She wore a purple robe, and stood in state Beside Sir Reginault,who greeted him With tender, grave, and kind solicitude, And lifted eyes that smote upon his heart With a long gaze of passionate appeal That held a pain at bay deep in their depths.

" She sniffed gently, and, wiping one eye at a time, kept the disengaged one charged with sisterly solicitude upon her brother.

With wifely solicitude she asked concerning Paul.