If you stay away ever so long, I shall never forget you, nor your goodness; but I hope you will soon be able to come back, and this is what I pray for every night.

Sister Frances says I may tell you that I am very good, and Victoire thinks so too." This was the substance of several of their little letters.

Victoire's contained rather more information:-- "You will be glad to learn that dear Sister Frances is safe, and that the good chestnut-woman, in whose cellar she took refuge, did not get into any difficulty.

After you were gone, M.T--- said that he did not think it worth while to pursue her, as it was only you he wanted to humble.

Manon, who has, I do not know how, means of knowing, told me this.