Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained lifted in childlike happiness.

Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her sister-in-law's dress.

"There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange.

And do you know, Mary, I am going to love him very much," said Lise, looking with bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law.