She had a hundred questions to ask, and made the most of her time by talking very fast.
"Marie will be frightened," she told Jules, "if she does not find me at the gate, and will think that the gypsies have stolen me.

Then she will begin to hunt up and down the road, and I don't know what she would say if she came and found me talking to a strange child out in the fields, so I must hurry back.

I am glad that I found you.

I have been wishing so long for somebody to play with, and you seem like an old friend because you were born in America.

I'm going to ask madame to ask Brossard to let you come over sometime." Jules watched her as she hurried away, running lightly down the road, her fair hair flying over her shoulders and her short blue skirt fluttering.