I was very much surprised at his gleeful impatience, not knowing a whit to what they alluded; and I only marvelled that no one came to fetch him, that we were suffered so long to retain him. We followed, I not even daring to look at the girl who had so expressed herself in my hearing, as to make me feel there were others who also _felt_; and turning the corner of the pavilion, we came into the shadow of a lovely walk planted and arched with lindens. It ran from a side door of the school house to an indefinite distance. We turned into this grove, and there again we found him. "How green, how ravishing!" he exclaimed, as the sunsprent shadows danced upon the ground. "Oh! that scent of scents, and sweetest of all sweetnesses, the linden flower! You hold with me there, I think?" "Yes, entirely; and yet it seems just sweet enough to promise, not to be, all sweetness." "I do not hold with you there. All that is sweet we cherish for itself,--or I do,--and I could not be jealous of any other sweetness when one sweetness filled up my soul." "Yes," I thought; but I did not express it, even to myself, as it now occurs to me,--"_that_ is the difference between your two temperaments." And so indeed it was: _he_ aspired so high that he could taste all sweetness in every sweetness, even here; _she_--younger, weaker, frailer--could only lose herself between the earth and heaven, and dared not cherish any sweetness to the utmost, while here unsafely wandering. "And this conservatory,--how do you use it?" "We do not use it generally; we may walk round it: but on state occasions refreshments are served there to our professors and their friends. I daresay it will be so to-day." "There will be people in there, you mean? In that case I think I shall remain, and sun myself on the outside. You, Carlomein, shall go in and look at the picture for me." "Is it a picture, sir? But I cannot see it for you; I should be afraid. I wish you would come in, sir!" "Ah, I know why! You are frightened lest Aronach should pounce upon you,--is it not?" I laughed. "A little, sir." "Well, in that case I _will_ come in. It does look inviting,--pretty room!" We stopped at the conservatory door. It was rather large, and very long; a table down the centre was dressed with flowers, and overflowing dishes decked the board. There were no seats, but a narrow walk ran round, and over this the foreign plants were grouped richly, and with excelling taste. The roof was not curtained with vine-leaves, as in England, but it was covered with the immense leaves and ivory-yellow blossoms of the magnolia grandiflora, which made the small arched space appear expanded to immensity by the largeness of its type, and gave to all the exotics an air of home.