"But how we are to live--" "Aunt Jeanne will tell you, and I will tell you now.

We are to live at Beaumanoir.

She says she is getting too old for the fanning, and must have help, and so--" "So you have arranged it all among you, though for all you knew it was a dead man you were planning for." "It kept our hearts alive to plan it, and, besides, we knew you were not dead.

I think we would have felt it if you had been." "A woman's heart is the most wonderful thing in the world and the most precious.

But it may deceive itself.