26/38 This question--I grant that this is not quite settled, and that I have, perhaps, allowed myself to be too easily persuaded. Jean is going away to-morrow, I shall not see him again for three weeks. During these three weeks I shall have ample time to question myself, to examine myself, in a word, to know my own mind. Under my giddy manner, I am serious and thoughtful, you know that ?" "Oh, yes, I know it." "Well, I will make this petition to you, as I would have addressed it to our mother had she been here. |