"Everything was changing," she would cry; "she did not know her own servants; the fact was she spoiled them!" On one occasion Josette gave her the "Journee du Chretien" instead of the "Quinzaine de Paques." The whole town heard of this disaster the same evening.

Mademoiselle had been forced to leave the church and return home; and her sudden departure, upsetting the chairs, made people suppose a catastrophe had happened.

She was therefore obliged to explain the facts to her friends.
"Josette," she said gently, "such a thing must never happen again." Mademoiselle Cormon was, without being aware of it, made happier by such little quarrels, which served as cathartics to relieve her bitterness.
The soul has its needs, and, like the body, its gymnastics.

These uncertainties of temper were accepted by Josette and Jacquelin as changes in the weather are accepted by husbandmen.

Those worthy souls remark, "It is fine to-day," or "It rains," without arraigning the heavens.