19/32 I am sure, sir,"-- again she faced him across the bed--"it is a disappointment to my mother, but it cannot be helped." "Dear, dear, it is unfortunate!" Madame Royaume exclaimed; and then with a fond look at her daughter, "Anne manages so well!" "Yet if there be a room at any time vacant ?" "You shall assuredly have it." "But, mother dear," the girl cried, "M. Grio and M.Basterga are permanent on the floor below. And Esau and Louis are now with us, and have but just entered on their course at college. And you know," she continued softly, "no one ever leaves your house before they are obliged to leave it, mother dear!" The mother patted the daughter's hand. |