On Sundays a real dinner was served in the room up-stairs, with soup, and removes, and entrees and the roti, all in the right place,--which showed that they knew what a dinner was at the Lion d'Or;--but, throughout the week, supper was the meal of the day.

After M.
Goudin, on this occasion, there came two maiden ladies from Epinal who were lodging at Granpere for change of air.

They seated themselves near to Madame Voss, but still leaving a place or two vacant.

And presently at the bottom of the table there came an Englishman and his wife, who were travelling through the country; and so the table was made up.

A lad of about fifteen, who was known in Granpere as the waiter at the Lion d'Or, looked after the two strangers and the young men, and Marie Bromar, who herself had arranged the board, stood at the top of the room, by a second table, and dispensed the soup.