"I have written so much about you in my letters that the girls and my mother will be delighted to see you." "Besides," Jeanne added, "the boys will have told them you are waiting behind with us, so they will not be so surprised as they would otherwise have been.

But it will be funny, arriving among people who don't speak a word of our language." "You will soon be at home with them," said Harry reassuringly.
"Jenny and Kate are just about your ages, and I expect they will have grown so I shall hardly know them.

It is nearly three years now since I left them, and I have to look at you to assure myself that Jenny will have grown almost into a young woman.

Now I shall go out for a bit, and leave you to chat together.
"You need not fidget about Victor, Marie.

Elise is with him, and will come and let you know if he wakes; but I hope that he has gone off fairly to sleep for the night.