He does not understand the old man's cold, forbidding manner, and it provokes monsieur to have the little one tremble and grow pale whenever he speaks.

Clotilde says that Madame Greville told monsieur that the boy needed games and young companions to make him more like other children, and he promised her that Monsieur Jules should come over here to-morrow afternoon to play with you." "Oh, good!" cried Joyce.

"We'll have another barbecue if the day is fine.

I am so glad that we do not have to be bothered any more by those tiresome old goats." By the time the next afternoon arrived, however, Joyce was far too much interested in something else to think of a barbecue.

Cousin Kate had come back from Paris with a trunk full of pretty things, and a plan for the coming Christmas.