CHAPTER XVI

A. 1. Her eyes were getting black circles around them. 2. I beg you to let me go early to-morrow morning. 3. Dq

you wish to surprise the curé? 4. Hâve you corne to wish that your desires should not be accomplished? 5. I wish success to ail your projects. 6. They must hâve been in the midst of lunch when we entered. 7. Let us not rush into the priest's house. 8. Hâve you corne to stay ? 9. They had been preaching calmness to her for three months. 10. You shall talk when you hâve eaten. 11. Let us send to get her. 12. Of what shall we talk? 13. Let us go through the house from top to bottom.

B. She jumped down from the stump on which she had gotten up in order to look through the window, and she rushed into the priest's house. He did not scold her, butlooked at her with his old jubilant air. She took ofï her gloves and sat down opposite him. She said she was dying. He said she did not look like it, and asked her of what she was dying. When she said that she was dying of love, he said that her imagination had been playing its pranks again. But she said that it was not a question of the imagination, that he must take her troubles seriously and she wept scalding tears. He would not joke on the subject and said that she was in good health. Finally he told her to think of something else.