Taste!" Jack tried hard to preserve his good manners, and only taste as he was told.

But the laws of Nature were too much for him.

He was as fond of sweet things as a child--he gobbled.

"I say, you're uncommonly good to me all of a sudden," he exclaimed between the bites.

"You didn't make much of me like this at Wurzburg!" He had given Madame Fontaine her opportunity.