But John saw that she had installed herself as a sort of guardian of them both, and she meant to watch over them as her children.

Yet however often she might appear to him in her old grim guise he would always be able to see beneath it.
Now they talked but little.

John saw after a while that Julie was growing sleepy, and truly a slender girl who had been through so much in one day had a right to rest.

He caught Suzanne's eye and nodded.

Rising, the Frenchwoman said in the tone of command which perhaps she had often used to Julie as a child: "It's time we were off to bed, Mademoiselle.