Chapter 22

“Not often; but sometimes when Miss Van Norman sat up late, by herself, she would excuse me at an earlier hour. She was most kind and considerate of everybody.” “Then when at last you saw Miss Van Norman in the library, what did you do?” “_Mon Dieu!_ I shrieked! Why not? I was amazed, shocked, but, above all, desolated! It was a cruel scene. I knew not what to do, so, naturally, I shrieked.” Marie’s French shrug almost convinced her hearers that truly that was the only thing to do on such an occasion. “And now,” sa…