She is in a temper with all five of us." Guillaume began to laugh.

"Ah! she's so stubborn!" he exclaimed.

"You can have no idea, Pierre, of what goes on in that little head of hers when anybody says or does anything contrary to her ideas of justice.

Such absolute and lofty ideas they are, that they can descend to no compromise.

For instance, we were talking of that recent affair of a father who was found guilty on his son's evidence; and she maintained that the son had only done what was right in giving evidence against his father, and that one ought invariably to tell the truth, no matter what might happen.