As she watched him go, overwhelmed by the sombre pride which she read in that glance, so friendly the evening before, her eldest son, who came running up from the other end of the garden, said to her as he embraced her:
Comme elle le regardait aller, atterrée de la hauteur sombre qu’elle lisait dans ce regard si aimable la veille, son fils aîné, qui accourait du fond du jardin, lui dit en l’embrassant :