"but in future, when you want information, I recommend you to come to me for it."
"Our friend offers to take me to America; she invites me to go back with her, to stay with her. You couldn't do that, could you?" And the young girl looked at me a moment. "Bon, a false note! I can see it by your face; you remind me of a maître de piano."
"You overdo the character—the poor American girl," I said. "Are you going to stay with that delightful family?"
"I will go and stay with any one that will take me or ask me. It's a real nostalgic. She says that in New York—in Thirty-Seventh Street—I should have the most lovely time."
"I have no doubt you would enjoy it."
"Absolute liberty to begin with."
"It seems to me you have a certain liberty here," I rejoined.
"Ah, this? Oh, I shall pay for this. I shall be punished by mamma, and I shall be lectured by Madame Galopin."
"The wife of the pasteur?"
"His digne épouse. Madame Galopin, for mamma,
