"And you ?" "Would I go back?
Oh yes; I thought it so agreeable." With this he was less pleased; he had expected the traces of resentment, and he was actually disappointed at not finding them.

But here was the little house of which his companion had spoken, and it seemed, indeed, a rather bad one.

That is, it was one of those diminutive structures which are known at French watering-places as "chalets," and, with an exiguity of furniture, are let for the season to families that pride themselves upon their powers of contraction.

This one was a very humble specimen of its class, though it was doubtless a not inadequate abode for two quiet and frugal women.

It had a few inches of garden, and there were flowers in pots in the open windows, where some extremely fresh white curtains were gently fluttering in the breath of the neighboring ocean.