Then Jane commented,
“It seems strange that everything always happens at once.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, I have just been offered what seemed at the time to be a wonderful opportunity and actually I had accepted it.”
“What was it?” Arletta asked.
“You remember Lady Langley, who your mother introduced me to when she wanted somebody to teach her children?”
“Yes, of course, I remember.”
“Well, I had just finished teaching the last one, who is going to school next term,” Jane explained, “when Lady Langley begged me to go to France.”
“To France,” Arletta exclaimed in surprise.
“It’s a very strange story, but Lady Langley’s brother married a French girl, the sister of the Duc de Sauterre. Apparently she died four years ago and, although Lady Langley offered to bring up the two childre
