"You'll be very snug here, Marthe," she said. "It's a nice, light room ... and there's only a dressing-room between you and Philippe.... But how did you come to want two bedrooms?"
"It was Philippe. He was afraid of disturbing me in the mornings...."
"Oh," repeated the girl. "It was Philippe's suggestion...."
Then she took up one of the photographs and examined it:
"How like his father your son Jacques is!... Much more so than Paul ... don't you think?"
Marthe came to the table and, bending over her friend, looked at the picture with those mother's eyes which seem to see in the inanimate image the life, the smile and the beauty of the absent one.
"Which do you like best, Jacques or Paul?" asked Suzanne.
"What a question! If you were a mother...."
"If I were a mother, I should like that one best who reminded me most of my husband. The other would make me suspect that my husband had ceased to love me...."