She succumbed more and more as the days went by. But she also observed that everybody else succumbed. While making the most of his mental charms and graces he gave a great deal of attention to his physical attractions. It was believed that he concentrated his attention upon his hair. He encouraged it to develop from the golden fuzz into a golden silk, from the tiny duck-tails to shining rings, from rings to a waving aureole, from the aureole to an entrancing mop of yellow, which tumbled over his forehead and gave his up-looking eyes a prettiness of expression. And how like him it was to make a point of never objecting to have this wayward, though lovely, growth brushed! What a _supplice_ he might have made of the ceremony for his family if he had resented it and rebelled! But, on the contrary, it was believed that he seized upon the opportunity offered by it to gild the refined gold of his amiability of disposition, as it were. Speaking as a person with some knowledge of the habits of the extremely young, I should say that there may be numbers of maternal parents who will scarcely believe that one of the most enchanting hours of the day was a certain time in the morning, when he leaned against his mamma’s knee and gave himself up to engaging conversation while his tangles were being taken out. He made not the slightest objection to being curled and brushed and burnished up and made magnificent. His soft, plump body rested confidingly against the supporting knee, and while the function proceeded he devoted himself to agreeable remark and analytical observation.