danced and were trying to hem you in?"

It was now my turn to ejaculate "Good heavens!" We both shook and
trembled together.

I said: "You gave me your hand, and all came straight at once. My old
school rose in place of the jail."

_She._ "With a yellow omnibus? And boys going off to their _premiere
communion?_"

_I._ "Yes; and there was a crowd--le Pere et la Mere
Francois, and Madame Liard, the grocer's wife, and--and
Mimsey Seraskier, with her cropped head. And
an organ was playing a tune I knew quite well, but
cannot now recall." ...

_She._ "Wasn't it 'Maman, les p'tits bateaux?'"

_I._ Oh, of _course!_

_"'Maman, les p'tits bateaux
Qui vont sur l'eau,
Ont-ils des jambes?'"_

_She_. "That's it!"

_"'Eh oui, petit beta!
S'ils n'avaient pas
Ils n'march'raient pas!'"_