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"Sing," said the lover when they had gone down a little ways, for most of the crafts were given over to melody and laughter. He had a fine voice. Singing was the great delight of those days, and nothing was more beguiling than the songs of the voyageurs. Delisse joined and Marie's soft voice was like a lapping wave. Madame Ganeau talked low to Pani about the child.
"Thou foolish child!" declared her mother. "Girls are never satisfied to be girls. And the houseful of children that come afterward!" Marie thought of all the children she had nursed, not her own. Yet she kissed little Aurel with a fond heart. "And Delisse " suggested Jeanne. "Oh, Delisse is to wear the wedding gown her sisters had.
Jeanne wondered that she should care so little for the defection of the De Bers. Pierre passed her with a sullen nod when he met her face to face and sometimes did not notice her at all. Marie was very important when she recovered from the surprise that a man should want to marry her, and that she should be the first of Delisse Graumont's maids to marry, she who was the youngest of them all.
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