"All right; if that's your idea, never fear, I'll carry off the poor layers; madame can do as she pleases. Well, well! here I am saying 'madame' and 'mademoiselle'; but it seems to me that you can't be mother and daughter; one of you's too young, and the other too old."
"That's so, it would be hard; but Agathe is only my friend. I am a widow; I have no—I have no child of my own; we two are all alone."
"Do you think of living here all the year round if you should buy the house?"
"Yes, to be sure, all the year; we shall settle down here."
"Well, I tell you, that'll suit me. Two nice little women in the place—they brighten things up, and they're pleasant to look at."
"Let us finish inspecting the house."
On the ground floor there were, besides the salon, a beautiful dining-room, pantry, bath-room and kitchen.
On the first floor there were four pleasant bedrooms and two dressing-rooms; above that, two servants'-rooms and a loft.
The whole house was furnished very comfortably.
Agathe jumped for joy as they entered each room.