"Dites donc, Monsieur Gard," she said pleasantly. "Our little Nannon was
telling me you regretted having to live so far away. Why should you not
come back and occupy your old room? It is lying empty there, and I would
do my very best to make you comfortable, and you would be close to your
friends all the time then, instead of having to go across that frightful
Coupee."
"It is very kind of you, madame," and he stared back at her in much
surprise, and found himself wondering what on earth had made her marry
such a man as Tom Hamon. For she was undeniably good-looking and had all
a Frenchwoman's knack of making the very best of all she had--abundant
black hair, very neatly twisted up at the back of her head; white teeth
and full red lips; straight, well-developed figure very neatly dressed;
and large black eyes which looked capable of so many things, that they
found it difficult to settle for any length of time to any one
expression.
"It is very kind of you, madame," said Gard, "but--" and he stood
looking at her and hesitating how to put it.
"You mean about Tom," she laughed.
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