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Updated: June 19, 2025
The guests began arriving silent, awkward strangers ten or twelve. She heard the nurse come in with Susette and take her back to the nursery. There was no music. Not a sound. At last the silence was broken by the minister's low voice. Thank heaven that was kindly.
One of those flute-like, bird-throated voices that children often have who live in the open all their lives, chasing butterflies or gathering wild flowers. Then came a halloo from the greensward. The priest was coming toward us, calling out, as he walked: "Susette! Susette!" He, too, underwent a change.
She appeared so frail that Kate feared to let her sleep without knowing where to locate her friends. "She should be punished for leaving you alone among strangers," said Kate indignantly. "If I only could learn to mind John," sighed the little woman. "He never liked Susette. But she was the very best maid I ever had.
"And he is a big man with a heavy voice, and, would you believe, he fairly lifted mother off her feet, and she tried to box his ears, but could not, and we all laughed so. He will be at the Fête to-morrow." "Come, Pani," Jeanne said quite early, "we will hunt for some flowers. Susette Mass said we were to bring as many as we could." "But there will be the procession and the blessings "
But from these Susette would bring her back. "What's your life to be, you poor little dear? And if you don't worry, why should I!" And resolutely she would turn to the small, absorbing life of the child. This went on for many months. It changed her feeling toward the town, for now she had a foothold here. It changed her feeling toward Amy, whose picture had begun to blur.
I took pains to observe Mademoiselle Susette, a beautiful girl not out of her teens, but noways comparable, as it seemed to me, in expression and vivacity, with her famous sister.
At the seashore, with Susette on the beach, hour after hour, she thought about Joe and about herself. This thinking was long and curious. It was confused, barely conscious at times, all mingled with the long bright waves that came rolling in from the shining sea.
In a minute you're going to laugh or cry! Laugh! It's better! Laugh! . . . That's right!" Joe had his small car waiting outside; and waving good-bye to Emily, who was taking Susette to the park, they sped away to the river and off into the country. Soon they were talking excitedly.
The nurse had taken her departure and Ethel had moved to the nursery. And now the routine of her day brought such a change in Ethel's life as deeply affected her future course though at first she had but little time to stop for self-analysis. At five in the morning she was roused by the low, sweet chirrup of Susette, who was peering over the edge of the crib.
"We'll have to help each other," she said. "And there's Susette to be thought of. The best way, I guess, is not to try to do much planning ahead just now. But I'd like to stay here if you want me, Joe. There's no other place where I want to be." He gave her a grateful tired smile. His hair was a bit dishevelled, and over his blunt kindly face had come a haggard lost expression.
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