Adrian Urmand had been three days gone from Granpere before Michel Voss found a fitting opportunity for talking to his niece.

It was not a matter, as he thought, in which there was need for any great hurry, but there was need for much consideration.

Once again he spoke on the subject to his wife.
'If she's thinking about George, she has kept it very much to herself,' he remarked.
'Girls do keep it to themselves,' said Madame Voss.
'I'm not so sure of that.

They generally show it somehow.

Marie never looks lovelorn.