“If this very first evening I ask you for a proof of this, you won’t be angry?”
“On the contrary.”
“Well, from what you have told me of your uncle, you seem to have accepted the second condition, of making up your quarrel, rather lightly.”
“I have only promised to do my best.”
“Yes, but my father counts upon your success. How do you intend to act?”
“I haven’t yet considered.”
“That’s just what I foresaw, and I thought it would perhaps be a good thing if we considered it together.”
“Mademoiselle, I am listening; compose the plan of campaign, and I will criticise it.”
Jeanne clasped her hands over her knees and assumed a thoughtful look.
“Suppose you wrote to him.”