12/25 I must be enabled to offer her a great inducement. If, for instance, I could tell her that you had made up your mind to come and live in Norfolk, she might say yes." "Ah! but she would have to make up her mind first. See Maurice," she broke in abruptly, "what is that little building on the other side the road? Only tell me what it is ?" "It is a chapel built on the place where the Duke of Orleans was killed some years ago." "I remember now somebody told me about it; his monument is there." "Very likely. I know nothing about it." "Oh, Maurice! to speak in that tone, when it was such a sad thing." "There are so many sad things--one cannot pity everybody." "You are cross this morning. |