Ursula replied that David had overcome Goliath.
This religious difference, these complaints of the child who wished to drag her godfather to God, were the only troubles of this happy life, so peaceful, yet so full, and wholly withdrawn from the inquisitive eyes of the little town.

Ursula grew and developed, and became in time the modest and religiously trained young woman whom Desire admired as she left the church.

The cultivation of flowers in the garden, her music, the pleasures of her godfather, and all the little cares she was able to give him (for she had eased La Bougival's labors by doing everything for him),--these things filled the hours, the days, the months of her calm life.

Nevertheless, for about a year the doctor had felt uneasy about his Ursula, and watched her health with the utmost care.

Sagacious and profoundly practical observer that he was, he thought he perceived some commotion in her moral being.