It will be like a large garden--all white, all white, all white!" The month of Mary! It was then the month of Mary.

Formerly, at this season, the altar disappeared under the flowers brought from the conservatories of Longueval.

None this year were on the altar, except a few bouquets of lily-of-the-valley and white lilac in gilded china vases.

Formerly, every Sunday at high mass, and every evening during the month of Mary, Mademoiselle Hebert, the reader to Madame de Longueval, played the little harmonium given by the Marquise.

Now the poor harmonium, reduced to silence, no longer accompanied the voices of the choir or the children's hymns.