16 RENEE.

 "Why, sister Claude, we
should get so tired growing
old here! It does very well
for now, but by and by we
want something better. We
shall marry great princes, and
have palaces close together;
and we shall always see and
love each other, and have
plenty to love us."
 "Well, Renee, maybe so,"
Claude would say, too mild
even to dispute.