And it's so nice and warm up here, Dudu--much warmer than in the house." "Sit down, then," said Dudu, "here, in this corner.

You can lean against the parapet,"-- for a low wall ran round the roof--"and look at the stars while you listen to me.

Well--one day, a good long while ago you would consider it, no doubt----" "Was it a hundred years ago ?" interrupted Jeanne.
"About that, I daresay," said the raven carelessly.

"I cannot be quite exact to twenty or thirty years, or so.

Well, one day--it was a very hot day, I remember, and I had come up here for a little change of air--I was standing on the edge of the parapet watching our two young ladies who were walking up and down the terrace path down there, and thinking how nice they looked in their white dresses and blue sashes tied close up under their arms, like the picture of your great-grandmother as a young girl, in the great salon, Mademoiselle Jeanne." "Oh yes, I know it," said Jeanne.