Why had such an upstart as that, a puny, miserable creature, come between him and the only thing that he had ever seen in the guise of a woman that could touch his heart?
He turned round with his back to the table and his face to the stove, and said nothing.

But he was able, when he no longer saw her, when her voice was not sounding in his ear, to swear that the thunderbolt should be hurled all the same.

His journey to Granpere should not be made for nothing.

'I must go now,' she said presently.

'I shall see you at supper, shall I not, George, when Uncle will be with us?
Uncle Michel will be so delighted to find you.