All these people round here with their little farms were once the peasants of Aristide's ancestors.

Now--even this chateau has a mortgage on it.

I couldn't keep back the tears, while Aristide was telling me." Adelaide thought of Charles Whitney listening to that same recital, and almost laughed.

"Well, I feel sure it will turn out all right," she said.
"Your mother'll see to that.

And I believe you'll be very, very happy." Theatricals in private life was Janet's passion--why should she not be happy?
Frenchmen were famous for their politeness and consideration to their wives; Aristide would never let her see or feel that she bored him, that her reverence for the things he was too intelligent and modern not to despise appealed to him only through his sense of humor.