"Behold my new home.

Is it not delightful?
This is the mother of Hector, Madame, and this--ah, this is the home of Hector and myself.

To-night also it is yours.
I am rejoiced.

Madame," she added, in an aside, while Lily, stupid and awkward, was for the time out of the way, "I can not bear to think of your going away with but that impossible niggaire there to care for you.

Almost--were it not for Hector and for this home--could you take Hector also--I should forget all and go with you even yet.