Since she had her mamma with her, madame seems calmer.

She got up yesterday for the first time, and--not to keep back anything from you--I have great hopes that in a fortnight or three weeks' time we shall see her going to balls again.

That will do her a world of good.
"She had your things taken up to the box-room, so that she might not see them any more, and Madame la Marquise has your room, but Madame la Comtesse never sets foot in it.

The artist in hair says that there is talk of renting a new house, or even of going to Spain.

I should be very sorry to leave Madame la Comtesse, but to Spain I would not go.
"I should be glad to know from Monsieur le Docteur whether, after madame has consoled herself a little, I may give her monsieur's address, that his things may be forwarded.