If I don't see Carette again before I leave, she will know how the land lies at all events.

If she takes to young Torode while I'm away it's because she likes him best." "And she,--Carette,--what did she say to it ?" "She didn't say anything." "Tuts! How did she look, boy?
A girl tells more with her face and her eyes than with her tongue, even when they say opposite things." "I'm not sure how she took it, Aunt Jeanne.

How would you have taken it, now ?" "Ma fe! It would depend," she laughed, her old face creasing up with merriment.

"If it was Monsieur Right I wouldn't have minded maybe, though I might be a bit taken aback at the newest way in courting." "Well, I thought she looked something like that.

And then, afterwards, I wasn't sure she wasn't angry about it.