3/34 When returning in the carriage, Bettina asked Mr.Scott if he had kept her letters. It was indeed only with "Jean" that all these letters have been filled. She found therein related, down to the most trifling details, their first meeting. There was the portrait of Jean in the vicarage garden, with his straw hat and his earthenware salad-dish--and then it was again Monsieur Jean, always Monsieur Jean. She discovered that she had loved him much longer than she had suspected. |