“Please, monsieur, let me get up. I feel quite well now,” Syrilla pleaded.
monsieurThe Doctor looked at her with a smile.
“Your mother-in-law, Madame la Duchesse Douairière, has already persuaded me much against my better judgement to agree to her travelling to Aix-les-Bains and then now you are bullying me into taking risks concerning yourself.”
“Belle-mère is going away?” Syrilla asked in surprise.
Belle-mèreThe Doctor nodded.
“The Duchesse Douairière is very much better than she has been for some time,” he said. “I think it is as much psychological as physical as she is so happy in her son’s marriage.”
Syrilla did not reply and after a moment he went on,
“She is very anxious to take the cure at Aix-les-Bains and I think that she also wishes to leave you two young people alone. So
