George, who began to find the lecture rather a long one, replied: “I thought we were not going to Rouen to talk about him.”
She gave him a slight tap on the cheek, saying, with a laugh: “That is so. I am in the wrong.”
He made a show of sitting with his hands on his knees like a very good boy.
“You look very like a simpleton like that,” said she.
He replied: “That is my part, of which, by the way, you reminded me just now, and I shall continue to play it.”
“Why?” she asked.
“Because it is you who take management of the household, and even of me. That, indeed, concerns you, as being a widow.”
She was amazed, saying: “What do