They were of a respectability!--of the old tradition! But if they came round she might take the child to them, if her husband would consent.

She should like it to be brought up in France-- "Here the Mother Superior interrupted her sharply.

Was her husband a Frenchman?
And she answered, no doubt before she thought, for these people always forget something, that no, he was an American--her family, also, detested Americans.

The Mother Superior once more interrupted her glibness.

How, then, did he have a French name?
Oh, but that was her stage name--she always went by it and had given it without thinking.