"Ah! you saw her foot before and after the immersion ?" "No, no! I don't think that anybody was able to see it, for it was bound round with bandages.

She told you that the bandages had fallen into the piscina." And, turning towards the child, Madame de Jonquiere added, "But she will show you her foot--won't you, Sophie?
Undo your shoe." The girl took off her shoe, and pulled down her stocking, with a promptness and ease of manner which showed how thoroughly accustomed she had become to it all.

And she not only stretched out her foot, which was very clean and very white, carefully tended indeed, with well-cut, pink nails, but complacently turned it so that the young priest might examine it at his ease.

Just below the ankle there was a long scar, whose whity seam, plainly defined, testified to the gravity of the complaint from which the girl had suffered.
"Oh! take hold of the heel, Monsieur l'Abbe," said she.

"Press it as hard as you like.