They say at Vilray that you have all you can do to
keep out of the Bankruptcy Court, and that--"
Jean Jacques started, flushed, and seemed about to get angry; but she put
things right at once.
"People talk more than they know, but there's always some fire where
there's smoke," she hastened to explain. "Besides, your father-in-law
babbles more than is good for him or for you. I thought at first that
M. Dolores was a first-class kind of man, that he had had hard times too,
and I let him come and see me; but I found him out, and that was the end
of it, you may be sure. If you like him, I don't want to say anything
more, but I'm sure that he's no real friend to you-or to anybody. If
that man went to confession--but there, that's not what I've come for.
I've come to say to you that I never felt so sorry for anyone in my life
as I do for you. I cried all night after your beautiful mill was burned
down. You were coming to see me next day--you remember what you said in
M. Fille's office--but of course you couldn't. Of course, there was no
reason why you should come to see me really--I've 'only got two hundred
acres and the house.
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