It is quite respectable, you understand, monsieur, with a hotel at the end of it, and really some very good houses.

But I do not wish to deceive you about the social position of myself or my husband.

Our house is on the wrong side of the street--definitely--yes.
It is a small house, and we do not see the water from any of the windows because of the better houses opposite.

M.Gobin, my husband, who was a clerk in one of the great banks in Geneva, broke down in health in the spring, and for the last three months has been compelled to keep indoors.

Of course, money has not been plentiful, and I could not afford a nurse.