Shortly after their arrival they were celebrated in the news papers as the first millionaire American family of natural-gas extraction who had arrived in the capital of civilization; and at a French watering-place Christine encountered her fate--a nobleman full of present debts and of duels in the past.
Fulkerson says the old man can manage the debtor, and Christine can look out for the duellist.

"They say those fellows generally whip their wives.

He'd better not try it with Christine, I reckon, unless he's practised with a panther." One day, shortly after their return to town in the autumn from the brief summer outing they permitted themselves, the Marches met Margaret Vance.
At first they did not know her in the dress of the sisterhood which she wore; but she smiled joyfully, almost gayly, on seeing them, and though she hurried by with the sister who accompanied her, and did not stay to speak, they felt that the peace that passeth understanding had looked at them from her eyes.
"Well, she is at rest, there can't be any doubt of that," he said, as he glanced round at the drifting black robe which followed her free, nun-like walk.
"Yes, now she can do all the good she likes," sighed his wife.

"I wonder--I wonder if she ever told his father about her talk with poor Conrad that day he was shot ?" "I don't know.

I don't care.