'I don't know, Madame, why I should trouble you with my poor story.
'It would not trouble me.

Besides, I know so much of it already.' She pointed to the bench he had just left.
'And I,' said Lucy, 'will go and fetch a book I left in the _loggia_.
Father Benecke, Mrs.Burgoyne is not strong.

She has walked more than enough.

Will you kindly make her rest while I am gone ?' She fixed upon him her kind beseeching eyes.

The sympathy, the homage of the two women enveloped the old man.