“Now just listen! You'll see that it's all for your sake,” she went on when he had grown somewhat calmer. “Steiner has arrived—he's up above there now. You know, duckie, I can't turn HIM out of doors.”
“Yes, I know; I'm not talking of HIM,” whispered the boy.
“Very well then, I've stuck him into the room at the end. I said I was out of sorts. He's unpacking his trunk. Since nobody's seen you, be quick and run up and hide in my room and wait for me.”
Georges sprang at her and threw his arms round her neck. It was true after all! She loved him a little! So they would put the lamp out as they did yesterday and be in the dark till daytime! Then as the front-door bell sounded he quietly slipped away. Upstairs in the bedroom he at once took off his shoes so as not to make any noise and straig
