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Updated: June 19, 2025
This reminder brought back the anger I was forgetting in my need of human fellowship, and I did not speak again, but hugged little Airole the closer, nestled under the warm rug.
I never dreamed that I had such a temper. I suppose, though, there must be something of the fishwife in every woman something that comes boiling up to the surface once in a while, and makes noblesse oblige hard to remember. The one relief to my feelings in this situation was given by my queer little new pet the wisp of a black doggie I've named Airole, after the village where he grew.
I'd brought him into the cloister in my arms hidden under a cape, because he had conceived a suspicious dislike of the cabman. Now he said all the things to the Prince that I wanted to say, and more, and would have snapped, if the Prince had not retired his hand in time. The process of quieting Airole gave me the chance to make up my mind what I should do next.
Instead of putting on speed, I stopped dead in the middle of the road. "Whist! Airole, is that you?" I called. In an instant a tiny black form was making wild springs at the car, trying to get in. It was Airole and no other. "This is where they are," I said. "In that house, yonder. If it hadn't been for the dog, we'd have gone on, and " It wasn't worth while to finish.
We both stood before the fire, holding out gloved hands to the meagre blaze, while little Airole ran about, whimpering and examining everything with unconcealed disapproval. Without asking permission he walked in, and looking at Aunt Kathryn, said in French, "You may go, Victorine."
It was after one o'clock when it occurred lo us that it was bedtime; and as at last the three ladies flitted away down the dim corridor, Terry and I, watching them, saw that something flitted after. It was the little black dog of Airole.
We started on again, in the same order as before and at the same pace, followed by all our village protegés, who commented frankly upon the plight of the Prince, and the personal appearance of the whole party. At length, however, our moving audience dwindled. A mile or two beyond Airole the last, most enterprising boy deserted us, and we thought ourselves alone in a twilight world.
When I had put on my hat and coat, which I'd taken off in the cabin, I went on deck with Airole tucked under my arm, expecting to find Aunt Kathryn, as I had not made haste.
We'll fight to the death, one and all of us." At last, without further mishap, we arrived at a mean village marked Airole on Terry's map. It was a poverty-stricken place, through which, in happier circumstances, we should have passed without a glance, but there, by the roadside was a blacksmith's forge, more welcome to our eyes than a castle double-starred by Baedeker.
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