Of course, it is a sorrow--but it is not the great sorrow.

You understand ?" "I think so." "That came to me many years ago, and was not connected with the Vicomte de Clericy, but with one who had no title beyond that of gentleman--and I think there is none higher.

It is an old story, and one that is too often enacted in France, where convenience is placed before happiness and money above affection.

My life has been, well--happy.

Lucille has made it so.