“Poor dear! We’ll help,” cried Mary. “But I must write to Cannes.”

“Wire!” cried John.

“Of course, wire!” echoed Mary.

“The first thing tomorrow.”

“Before breakfast.”

“Mary, I shall never forget——.”

“No, John, it’s you who——.” and they went off in a torrent of mutual laudation.

Miss Bussey shook her head.

“If they think all that of one another why don’t they marry?” she said.