's eyes twinkled, for Mademoiselle Therese had a mania for
speaking English whenever possible, and at first always used that
language when with her pupil, until Barbara had asked her if she had
got so accustomed to speaking English that it was more familiar to her
than French! Since then, she only used English in public places, or
when she thought English people were near.

"It is such a good advertisement," she explained complacently. "You
never know what introductions it may make for you."

Barbara had used the same argument in favour of bathing every day, and
had prevailed, though she had really been very particular about
speaking French--not, I fear, from the desire of pleasing Mademoiselle
Therese, but because of the thought of the home people, and what she
meant to do for them.

"I can't understand how you can bear riding in this weather," Marie
remarked, as they toiled slowly home in the sun. "It would kill me to
jog up and down on a horse in a sun as hot as this."

"Not when you're accustomed to it," Barbara assured her. "You would
want to do it everyday then. I'm going to ride to St. Lunaire this
afternoon."

"Then Aunt Therese won't go for the walk after supper. What a
happiness!" Marie cried, for Mademoiselle Loire was not so strict as
her sister.

The latter had grown quite reconciled to her journeys to Dinard now,
and, as a matter of fact, was looking forward with regret to the time
they must cease. She found the afternoons in the Casino Gardens with
her friend very pleasant, and came back each time full of ideas for
altering everybody's clothes.

This she was not permitted to do, however, for Mademoiselle Loire had
an unpleasant remembrance of similar plans on a previous occasion,
which had resulted in many garments being unpicked, and then left in a
dismembered condition until Marie and she had laboriously sewed them up
again! This particular afternoon Mademoiselle Therese was in a very
complacent mood, having just retrimmed her hat for the second time
since its immersion, and feeling that it was wonderfully successful.

"If I had not been acquainted with the English language, and had so
many pressing offers to teach it," she said, as they were walking up to
the riding-school, "I should have made a wonderful success as a
_modiste_. Indeed, I sometimes wonder if it might not have been less
trying work."

"That would depend on the customers, wouldn't it?" Barbara returned;
but did not h