Claudine, as soon after her first sight of him as she could get hold of Lucia, had a dozen questions to ask.

"Was he Mademoiselle's brother?
Her cousin then?
Only a friend?
What a charming young man! How tall he was! and what magnifiques yeux bruns! Now, surely, Mademoiselle would not be so _triste_?
She would go out a little?
and everybody would remark them, Mademoiselle being so graceful, and monsieur so _very_ tall." Lucia told her mother, laughing, that she and Maurice were going to walk up the Champs Elysees next day, with placards, saying that they were two North Americans newly caught; and when Maurice came next morning, she repeated Claudine's comments to him with a perfect enjoyment of the good little woman's admiration for "ce beau Monsieur Canadien.".