And that is all that matters." It was on the second Sunday after their arrival in Paris that the children came to visit their mother.

Pilar looked forward with some uneasiness to Wilhelm's first meeting with them, and he too felt far from comfortable when Pilar brought a half-grown girl and a ten-year old boy to him, and addressing herself to them said, "Embrace Monsieur le Docteur, and look at him well.

He is the best friend your mother has on earth.

You must love him very much, for he deserves it." The girl was fair like her mother.

She was already dressed with conspicuous elegance, and her manner betrayed extreme self-consciousness.