46/91 How strange it was to meet like this again, after so many years! They never dreamed of running into each other like this and even living in the same rooms. Her husband had inherited a little money from an aunt and he would probably set her up in a shop before long. Meanwhile she was still sewing. At length, at the end of a full half hour, the laundress took her leave. Poisson scarcely seemed to notice her departure. |