As soon as they were back, David volunteered,
“I don’t like Cousin Jacques.”
“Nor do I,” Pauline chimed in, not wishing to be left out.
“Why?” Arletta asked.
She noticed that David once again looked over his shoulder as if he was afraid of being overheard.
Then he tried to explain his feelings,
“There is something about him that makes me feel uncomfortable. I don’t know why.”
He looked a little puzzled and then he went on,
“Mama said that we should send out waves of kindness to people so that they like us, but the waves coming from Cousin Jacques are not kind.”
That was what Arletta had thought herself, but she was surprised that such a small boy should be so perceptive.
Then she thought that living in the Château in such strange conditions had perhaps made him different from oth
