"
"Don't abuse the little tante-gra'mere."
"She gets praise enough at our house. Mother says she's a discipline
that keeps Angelique from growing vain. Thank Heaven, we don't need such
discipline in our family."
"It is my father's grand-aunt," explained Angelique to Maria, "and when
you see her, mademoiselle, you will be surprised to find how well she
bears her hundred years, though she has not been out of her bed since I
can remember. Mademoiselle, I hope I never shall be very old."
Maria gave Angelique the piercing stare which unconsciously belongs to
large black eyes set in a hectic, nervous face.
"Would you die now?"
"I feel always," said the French girl, "that we stand facing the mystery
every minute, and sometimes I should like to know it."
"Now hear that," said Peggy. "I'm no Catholic, but I will say for the
mother superior that she never put that in your head at the convent. It
is wicked to say you want to die."
"But I did not say it. The mystery of being without any body,--that is
what I want to know.
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