Vérité

"ON the previous evening, that of Wednesday, Marc Froment, the Jonville schoolmaster, with Genevieve his wife and Louise his little girl, had arrived at Maillebois, where he was in the habit of spending a month of his vacation, in the company of his wife's grandmother and mother, Madame Duparque and Madame Berthereau-'those ladies,' as folk called them in the district."