do not need to tell very much of my life at this it was very gay visit succeeded visit and with every day that went hy louis became more and more devoted to me and his mother more tenderly attached to me i never for one moment regretted that i had consented to their wishes and married louis i was calmly quietly peacefully happy and above all things i had that tranquil feeling of which was most of anything satisfying and delightful to one who had as cruelly and bitterly from for change as i had done in the past i never in any way thought of putting louis in the place which my first husband had occupied when i thought of him which was very often it was of some sacred past too bright for human hopes to hold on to for ever i never talked about him and never mentioned him never spoke of him in any way asked me no questions never sought to open the door of my past love never treated me other than as if he were the first and only man who had possessed my heart i was more than glad of this z i c the t rt ot my life because i had never in any way bought to parade the fact of my before the face of my second husband immediately upon my l to louis i gathered together my photographs and of and put them away it would have been terrible to me to have had to answer careless who might hare seen them in my apartments and to me it seemed that it would have been terrible to louis to see before him the face of his dead rival so we begun our new life without any evidences of the old one and the only remembrance of my first love that i had allowed myself to retain in daily use was that i always wore a little gold ring set with a single diamond like a which had bought for me in on the evening before we parted a little ring for which he had given something like a couple of hundred and which he had bought oa a last of india and not with any idea tiiat an immediate parting was upon n i never explained that ring and louis asked no questions about it indeed i knew not then and know not now whether he ever noticed that it was upon my hand so our life glided peacefully on a life that was peaceful and yet very full of interests and occupations we visited during that winter each one of the different estates belonging to the family the princess remaining at partly because she thought it would he better if we went alone and partly because she was afraid to face long journeys in the midst of a winter wherever we went we were ted and great were got up in our honour and we came back to our every day life and contentment on my part at all events with sighs of satisfaction and relief the following spring was taken op by to and and when the time came again that we should thick of the cure necessary for the off of the princess s louis suggested to her that we should all go together to rather than that she should once more take a cure at she was absolutely indifferent as to her place of cure i d m t think that it is quite the right place for me she said to me because it is more for than for but if we find that it does not agree with me we can very well go to where i should be very near to you in case i were not so well from what i can gather louis replied to her i believe that would suit you even better than and i think you would like the place itself much the better of the two i am anxious for to see it and i have not been there for a long long time so that if it makes no difference to you mother we may as well try it for once i have not been there for nearly twenty years said the princess i shall be delighted to renew my acquaintance with the picturesque little spot shall we then regard it as a settled thing so it was quite decided that we were to spend a little time at for myself i cared little or nothing i was in excellent health at this time and had no need of taking a cure at either one place or another indeed so far as i knew there was at this stage of our life together only one thing which seemed possible for us to want and that was an heir to the great house of and i confess that i should j the sl of ht life have hailed the coming of such an event with for it seemed to me that to give an heir would be the only adequate way in which i could in any repay him for all that he had given to me q l chapter a in coarse of time we found ourselves comfortably established at bitter s hotel overlooking the pretty little park at then not a little to s we discovered that he had done wrong in his mother to accompany ns the place did not seem to suit her at all and the doctor who was called in to attend her at once told us that we had better remove to the princess however with that rare which so distinguished her refused to change her quarters unless we would promise that she should go alone � that is to say only with her attendants i shall be quite wretched if i know that i have taken you and with me she said to louis after all 