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Men are different from women. If a man is faithful to one of us, it is only because no other woman of sufficient charm has become between him and us. You can never trust a man." "What dreadful ideas you have." "Do you think so? I hope not. I only speak what I have observed. Take the case of Fraulein von Holtzhausen, for instance.
Waiting till it had vanished and the footsteps gone past him, he turned round and at a glance recognized Hilda von Holtzhausen, Miss Lee's beautiful companion, who was supposed to have departed into the more distant parts of Germany. George's eyes twinkled, and a whole host of ideas rushed into his really able mind. "Caught at last, for a sovereign," he muttered.
The dark hair, that threw out glinting lights of copper when the sun struck it, still curled in its clustering ringlets and showed no line of grey, while the mysterious, heavy-lidded eyes and the coral lips were as full of rich life and beauty as they had been when she and Hilda von Holtzhausen first met at Rewtham House.
The lady told him that her name was Hilda von Holtzhausen, that she was of a German family, and had come to England to enter a family as companion, in order to obtain a perfect knowledge of the English language. She had already been to France and acquired French; when she knew English, then she had been promised a place as school-mistress under government in her own country.
"You see what I mean; Fraulein von Holtzhausen actually looks as though she were afraid of me. Can you fancy any one being afraid of me, except my husband, of course? for as you know, when a woman is talking of men, her husband is always excepted. Come, we must be going; but, Mr.
Philip laughed, blushed, and acknowledged his identity with the gentleman whom Miss Lee "did seem to appear to love." "Oh! I am glad; then we shall be friends, and see each other often shall we not?" He declared unreservedly that she should see him very often. From Fraulein von Holtzhausen Philip gathered in the course of their journey a good many particulars about Miss Lee.
During the course of a long stay on the island, the two girls had become fast friends, and the friendship had culminated in an offer being made by Maria Lee to Fraulein von Holtzhausen to come and live with her as a companion, a proposal that exactly suited the latter.
After luncheon, at Maria's invitation he gave Fraulein von Holtzhausen her first lesson in writing in English character; and to speak truth he found the task of guiding her fair hand through the mysteries of the English alphabet a by no means uncongenial occupation.
I am the Fraulein von Holtzhausen. What is it you want me to promise?" "I want you to meet me this evening at nine o'clock in the summer- house." "I think, Mr. Caresfoot, that you are forgetting a little what is due to me, to yourself, and to Miss Lee?" "What do you mean by due to Miss Lee?"
But if I keep you here much longer, I shall be drawing the enmity of Miss Lee, and yes, of Fraulein von Holtzhausen, too, on to my devoted head, and, as that is the only sort of jealousy I have any fear of, or indeed any respect for, being as it is the expression of the natural abhorrence of one woman for another, I had rather avoid it."
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