At heart her great grief was at having bid the blacksmith an eternal farewell.

All was ended between them; they would never see each other more.

Then, besides that, all her other thoughts of misfortune pressed upon her, and almost caused her head to split.

As she passed she poked her nose in at the Bijards' and beheld Lalie dead, with a look of contentment on her face at having at last been laid out and slumbering forever.

Ah, well! children were luckier than grown-up people.