She travelled a long distance in a little while.
"I've got no trouble myself," she responded.

"But, yes, I have," she added.

"I've got one trouble--it's yours.

It's that you've been having hard times--the flour-mill, your cousin Auguste Charron, the lawsuits, and all the rest.

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.