He believed that in politics, as in all other departments of life, candour and bold play were best in the long run.

Yet he would like to see the man in a different humour, and with joy he heard Junia say to Grandois.
"How is the baby boy, and how is madame, Monsieur Grandois ?" It came at the right moment, for only two days before had Madame Grandois given her husband the boy for which he had longed.

Junia had come to know of it through a neighbour and had sent jellies to the sick woman.

As she came forward now, Grandois, taken aback, said: "Alors, they're all right, ma'm'selle, thank you.

It was you sent the jellies, eh ?" She nodded with a smile.