In appearance she had been variously likened by Trevelyan, who was painting her portrait, to a druidess, a vestal virgin, and a Greek goddess; and Lady Arbuthnot's friends, who thought to please the girl, assured her that no one would ever suppose her to be an Americantheir ideas of the American young woman having been gathered from those who pick out tunes with one finger on the pianos in the public parlors of the Métropole.

He lodged at a woman's, who was, they said, a Druidess, and had the prophetic faculty.