She suggested that Marie should buy flowers with the money, and put them on the Dutchman's coffin.

This idea comforted Marie beyond Bernardine's most sanguine expectations.
"A beautiful tin wreath," she said several times.

"I know the exact kind.
When my father died, we put one on his grave." That same evening, during _table-d'hote_, Bernardine told the Disagreeable Man the history of the afternoon.

He had been developing photographs, and had heard nothing.

He seemed very little interested in her relation of the suicide, and merely remarked: "Well, there's one person less in the world." "I think you make these remarks from habit," Bernardine said quietly, and she went on with her dinner, attempting no further conversation with him.