“What did she say?”
“She said, ‘There is much misery in your home.’”
“Is that all she said?”
“She said, ‘There will be much misery in the country over the harvests and the cattle.’”
“Did she not tell you to be good?”
“‘Pray continually,’ she said to me, and then she said like this, ‘I greet you. There is much misery in your home.’”
And the words of the child rang out in the imposing silence.
“Was the Blessed Virgin very beautiful?” again questioned Madame de Brécé.
“Yes, Madame. But one eye and one cheek were missing, because I had not prayed long enough.”
“Had she a crown upon her head?” asked M. Lerond, who, as an ex-member of the magistracy, was inquisitive and fond of asking questions.