might be a bit taken aback at the newest way in courting."

"Well, I thought she looked something like that. And then, afterwards, I
wasn't sure she wasn't angry about it. I don't know. I've had so little to
do with girls, you see."

"And you'd not know much more, however much you'd had. You're only a boy
still, mon gars."

"Well, I'm going to do a man's work, and it's for Carette I'm going to do
it. Put in a good word for me while I'm away, won't you now, Aunt Jeanne?
Carette is more to me than anything else in the world."

"Ay, well! We'll see. And you saw Torode himself?"

And I told her all I had to tell about Torode, and John Ozanne, whom she
had known as a boy.

"He was always good-hearted was John, but a bit slow and easy-going," said
she. "But we'll hope for the best."

"Will Carette be across in the next day or two?"

"I doubt it. Those two who got hurt will need her. If you don't see her you
shall leave me a kiss for her," she chirped.

"I'll give you a dozen now," I cried, jumping up, and giving her the full
tale right heartily.

"Ma fé, yes! You are getting on, mon gars," she said, as she set the black