QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER II

Quelles furent les pensées de Wanda en s*apercevant que tout se passait comme à Tordinaire, après la réception de la lettre?

Regretta-t-elle sa décision?

Racontez comment, à l'école, elle laissa échapper son secret.

Pendant les vacances, lorsque les leçons se firent rares, comment vécurent Wanda et sa mère?

Racontez l'évanouissement de Mme Bolinska à Saint-Symphorien.

Que décida alors la mère de Wanda?

Racontez ce qu'avait imaginé Mme Bolinska afin de pouvoir accompagner sa fille chez la Princesse Thérèse.

TRANSLATION

No more was heard from Princess Thérèse nor from Prince André. This rather surprised Wanda.

One day at school a quarrel (dispute) between Wanda and the daughter of a butcher, took place (s'éleva). Wanda always wanted to lead (mener les autres). The butcher's daughter exclaimed (s'écria): " Just look at little Bolinska! One might think her (ne dirait-on pas) a princess!" Wanda answered: "Ah! it îs not I who said it!" Ail asked for an explanation (on la pressa de questions), which Wanda gave. The story was told to the teacher.

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and in the children's homes. Mme Bolinska's secret ceased to be a secret

When the holldays came, Wanda's mother found it difficult to eam the bread of each day.

One day of great heat, Mme Bolinska, with Wanda, went to * Saint-Symphorien where she gave lessons in a foreign (étrangère) family. Hère, she fainted f roiii want of food.

That night» Mme Bolinska wrote to t*rincess Thérèse. As she could no longer bear to see Wanda sufiFering from poverty (misère) she would send her to her aunt.

At this, Wanda burst out crying, declaring that she could not do without her mother.

Then Mme Bolinska» taking her in her arms, said: " Were you older (plus grande), I might tell you of a wild (folle) idea which came to me in the night." She had thought that she could take the place of the responsible person the princess had asked her to find. "But/' added she, ** listen. If ever you are forced to betray our secret — you must tell the truth."