CHAPTER XV

A. 1. Write to me punctually twice a week. 2. She remained a fortnight without giving him a sign of life, which plunged him into sorrow and anxiety. 3. She no longer believes in anything. 4. Not that he is an egoist but he leads the life of a rat in a cheese. 5. If the knights had been there, the hall would hâve had some charm. 6. Ail her logic served no purpose under the circumstances. 7. I wish to talk seriously to you this very evening. 8. Did you perceive that she becamepale? 9. I did not notice it. 10. Do you think that they suit each other?

B. The priest wrote to lier by return mail and said that her imagination hindered her from seeing things justly. It is true that she was looking at things through the black veil of her surly temper. On the day that they spent at Mont Saint-Michel she felt that there was something evil in the air, and the next morning when Blanche told her that Paul had asked her in marriage, she felt her pride slipping fast away and she became very pale. Her uncle said that this marriage would crown ail his wishes, but Reine thought that Paul and Blanche did not < suit each other at ail, from certain points of view, and although she was full of good sensé, she f ell into despondency, for it was ail over with her dream.