He charges three libbre for each lesson of one hour, and six for two hours, but he requires to be paid each time." "My dear," said Henriette to me, "do you wish me to engage that master ?" "Yes, dearest, it will amuse you." The shoemaker promised to send the Flemish professor the next morning.
The dressmakers were hard at work, the mother cutting and the daughter sewing, but, as progress could not be too rapid, I told the mother that she would oblige us if she could procure another seamstress who spoke French.
"You shall have one this very day, sir," she answered, and she offered me the services of her own son as a servant, saying that if I took him I should be certain to have neither a thief nor a spy about me, and that he spoke French pretty well.

Henriette thought we could not do better than take the young man.

Of course that was enough to make me consent at once, for the slightest wish of the woman we love is our supreme law.

The mother went for him, and she brought back at the same time the half-French dressmaker.

It all amused my goddess, who looked very happy.
The young man was about eighteen, pleasant, gentle and modest.