Does that satisfy you, monsieur?"
"Thank you, mademoiselle; you restore me to life," said Dumay, "but
you might still call me Dumay, even when you box my ears!"
"Swear to me," said her mother, "that you have not engaged a word or a
look with any young man."
"I can swear that, my dear mother," said Modeste, laughing, and
looking at Dumay who was watching her and smiling to himself like a
mischievous girl.
"She must be false indeed if you are right," cried Dumay, when Modeste
had left them and gone into the house.
"My daughter Modeste may have faults," said her mother, "but falsehood
is not one of them; she is incapable of saying what is not true."
"Well! then let us feel easy," continued Dumay, "and believe that
misfortune has closed his account with us."
"God grant it!" answered Madame Mignon. "You will see _him_, Dumay; but
I shall only hear him. There is much of sadness in my joy."
CHAPTER XII
A DECLARATION OF LOVE,--SET TO MUSIC
At this moment Modeste, happy as she was in the return of her father,
was, nevertheless, pacing her room disconsolate as Perrette on seeing
her eggs broken.
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