10/13 She will look no older for the next ten years. She has a girl's figure and a girl's face, but a woman's heart, Edgar, I am sure of it." "She is thirty, you say, and has been here for five years; that would make her a woman of twenty-five before she left France. A French woman of twenty-five has lived her life." "That is just what I mean," she replied. "Rely upon it, for all her girlish face and girlish ways, Coralie d'Aubergne has lived hers." "Clare," I asked, half shyly, "how do you like Miss Thesiger ?" A look bright as a sunbeam came over my sister's face. Her face is as pure as a lily, and her soul is the same. |