"About what?"
"About my birth, about my family."
"Your family; you told me that you were an abandoned child."
"True, madame; but someone who knew my nurse has told me several things which may help me, they say, to find my parents."
"Really—I think I will put on a blue ribbon instead of a pink one, it will look better.—Were you not left at the Foundling Hospital in Paris?"
"No, madame, I was born in Paris, but I was given in charge of a nurse, who came from Picardie, and who went back to her province at once."
Madame de Grangeville ceased to toy with her cap and said to Mademoiselle Lizida, who was putting the room in order:
"Leave us, go.—You were saying that your nurse lived in Picardie?"
"Yes, madame."
"What was her name?"