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With her return to health, demands of a social nature were made

upon her. She enjoyed pleasures but a seriousness attended her

every movement that much annoyed her friends. The attendants and

servants were excited to wonder at her kind and thoughtful

interests of them--while many thought it was due to her weak

physical condition, others remarked, how much the Princess'

sickness had improved her. Those that before feared her, now

began to love and seek to please and serve her.

Rathunor was a daily visitor, and remembering the advice and

instructions of the Hierophant he was calm, silent, and patient

in his attentions to her and apparently took no heed of her

fancies and strange conversation. She would constantly plan

amusements and social entertainments on a grand scale, but with

such a seriousness of purpose that it quite annoyed Rathunor at

times and caused him to wonder if this was really his former

Nu-nah.