In the center of the lawn stands a sun dial--grey, green and ancient--a relic of those days when men lived by hours, and not by minutes, as we do to-day.

It is all of the old world--of that old, old world of France beside which our British antiquities are, with a few exceptions, youthful.

This was the birthplace of Madame de Clericy and of Lucille herself.

Hither the ladies always returned with a quiet joy.

There is no more peaceful spot on earth than La Pauline, chiefly, perhaps, because there is nothing in nature so still and lifeless as an olive grove.