And the next day and the day after were very rainy, so there was nothing I could do.

But after that again there came a very fine day--a beautiful sunny day it was, I remember it well--and our young ladies came out like the flowers and the birds to enjoy it.

Out, too, came the forlorn little black figure, hiding itself as before behind the railings of the balcony, but looking with longing eyes at the garden below, which to her must have seemed a kind of Paradise.

I directed my steps to the terrace, and walked slowly in front of the young ladies, slowly and solemnly straight in front of them, for I wanted to attract their attention.
"'How particularly solemn Dudu looks to-day,' said one of them to the other.
"'Yes,' she replied, 'quite as if he had something on his mind.

Have you been doing anything naughty, Dudu ?' "I turned and looked at her reproachfully.