She chatters like a magpie and skips about like a kid.

She has two glow-worms under her eyelids! As to Jeanne, that's another affair; she has the matrimonial melancholy, and has the air of a young victim.

Leave them alone; it will all come right.

But you must admit that the gayety of the one is at least as irritating as the languor of the other!" Cayrol, somewhat reassured by this explanation, and thinking, like her, that it was the uncertainties of marriage which were troubling Jeanne, no longer attached any importance to her sad appearance.

Micheline and Serge isolated themselves completely.