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As the days passed, she tried to rouse Magda from the apathy into which she seemed to have fallen, but without success. "It's no use, Gillyflower," she would reply with a weary little smile. "There is no way out. Do you remember I once said I was too happy for it to last? It was quite true. . . . Have you told Marraine?" she asked suddenly. "Yes. And she wants to see you."
Tamara stroked her godmother's hand. "Dear, dear Marraine," she said. Then they checked sentiment and went to dress for dinner, arm in arm. They had grown real friends in these three short weeks. The scene at the ballet was most brilliant, as it is always on a Sunday night.
They were to have stopped at the college camp in Shelter Cove, where Marraine had some girl friends; they were to have kept on their sunlit way to Killykinick, for so dad had agreed; they were to have looked in on the Life-Saving Station, which Marraine had never seen; in fact, they were to have done more pleasant things than Polly could count, and now the storm had fallen on her namesake and spoiled all.
And stubborn pride is something bad; isn't it, Marraine?" "Well, yes, it is," agreed Marraine, "when it is stubborn pride, Pollykins. But when one has empty hands and empty purse and well, an empty life, too, Pollykins, it is not stubborn pride to try to fill them with work and care and pity and help." "And that is what you do at the hospital, Marraine?" "It is what I try to do, Pollykins.
Tears stood in the big eyes as she flung out her arms and cried in a sudden passionate intensity, "Marraine! Marraine! I want you I want you! If you loved me, you would come to me, because I want you so!" "The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed."
And now she was in the midst of the unmeasured city which had darkened itself for war, and she was afraid of an unloosed might.... What madness was she doing? She did not even know the man's name. She knew only that he was "Edgar W." She would have liked to be his marraine, according to the French custom, but he had never written to her.
The main point was to concentrate on getting him back to England, rather than waste her energies upon what she knew beforehand must prove a fruitless argument. "I'll go to Marraine for a couple of nights, anyway," said Magda at last. "After that, I want to make arrangements for my reception into the sisterhood." Gillian returned no answer.
The bitterness in her voice wrung the old woman's heart. She sighed, then straightened her back defiantly. "We have to bear the burden of our blunders, my dear." There was a reminiscent look in the keen old eyes. Lady Arabella had had her own battles to fight. "And, after all, who should pay the price if not we ourselves?" "But if the price is outrageous, Marraine? What then?"
I love them and look after them. Well, listen: I will be your marraine, too." I bowed and looked around for something to pledge her in. T-d was watching. My eyes fell on a huge glass of red pinard. "Yes, drink," said my captor, with a smile. I raised my huge glass. "A la sante de ma marraine charmante!" The tin derby approved also: "That's right, eat, drink, you'll need it later perhaps."
For a long time all the children in the colony called her 'Marraine. "M. Provencher announced that from the next day the missionaries would begin their work and that the settlers ought to begin at the same time to work at the erection of a home for them. "M. Lajimoniere was one of the first to meet at the place selected and to commence preparing the materials for the building.
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