She was sorry she had not taken off her wedding-ring.

In England the wise woman always takes off her wedding-ring on going to see a fortune-teller.

She was also rather glad that she had left her pearls in the safe custody of M.Girard.This little house in the Rue Jolie was a strange, lonely place.
Suddenly Madame Cagliostra began to speak in a quick, clear, monotonous voice.
Keeping her eyes fixed on the cards, which now and again she touched with a fat finger, and without looking at Sylvia, she said: "Madame has led a very placid, quiet life.

Her existence has been a boat that has always lain in harbour--" She suddenly looked up: "I spent my childhood at Dieppe, and that often suggests images to me," she observed complacently, and then she went on in quite another tone of voice:-- "To return to Madame and her fate! The boat has always been in harbour, but now it is about to put out to sea.

It will meet there another craft.
This other craft is, to Madame, a foreign craft, and I grieve to say it, rather battered.