She will be better able to bear it after a good night's sleep." Marie was up and dressed when Harry arrived, and was sitting by the fire in the little kitchen.
"I have just left your sisters, Marie," Harry said, "and you may imagine their delight at the news I gave them.

You are to see them this evening in the gardens of the Tuileries." "Oh, Harry, how good you are! How much you have done for us!" Harry laughed lightly.
"Not very much yet; besides, it has been a pleasure as well as a duty.

The girls have both been so brave, and Jeanne has the head of a woman." "She is nearly a woman now, Harry," Marie said gently.

"She is some months past sixteen, and though you tell me girls of that age in England are quite children, it is not so here.

Why, it is nothing uncommon for a girl to marry at sixteen." "Well, at anyrate," Harry said, "Jeanne has no time for any thought of marrying just at present.