"Only Marie, nossing else." "Maree!" repeated Abby Rock.

"Well, it's a pretty name, sure enough; has a sound of 'Mary' in it, too, and that was my mother's name.

But what was your father's name, or your mother's, if so be your father ain't living now ?" Marie shook her head.

"I never know!" she said.

"All the days I lived with Mere Jeanne in the village, far away, oh, far, over the sea." "Over the sea ?" said Abby.