She listened with great interest to the girl's account of Mrs.
Touchett's appearance and in the evening prepared to comply with their
aunt's commands. Of what Isabel then said no report has remained,
but her sister's words had doubtless prompted a word spoken to her
husband as the two were making ready for their visit. "I do hope
immensely she'll do something handsome for Isabel; she has evidently
taken a great fancy to her."
"What is it you wish her to do?" Edmund Ludlow asked. "Make her a
big present?"
"No indeed; nothing of the sort. But take an interest in her-
sympathize with her. She's evidently just the sort of person to
appreciate her. She has lived so much in foreign society; she told
Isabel all about it. You know you've always thought Isabel rather
foreign."
"You want her to give her a little foreign sympathy, eh? Don't you
think she gets enough at home?"
"Well, she ought to go abroad," said Mrs. Ludlow. "She's just the
person to go abroad."
"And you want the old lady to take her, is that it?"
"She has offered to take her- she's dying to have Isabel go. But
what I want her to do when she gets her there is to give her all the
advantages.
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