The girl heard the sigh, looked down, and huddled up the ladder, crying piteously.

The ladder was too slim to bear two.

It snapped and fell, and they tumbled down, she above and he below! The loud screams of the girl brought all the household to the spot--the Canons, the little Abbe, the cook, the scullion--indeed all the inmates of the Seminary.

Jasmin quaintly remarks, "A girl always likes to have the sins known that she has caused others to commit." But in this case, according to Jasmin's own showing, the girl was not to blame.

The trick which he played might be very innocent, but to the assembled household it seemed very wicked.