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Paul stared at her. The thought in his mind was that she ought to come too, only he knew the children would not approve.

'Then I must moderate their enthusiasm,' he said gravely at last.

Mlle. Fleury laughed in his face. 'You are worst of ze lot, I know—worst of all. Your Aventures and plays trouble all their lesson-time.'

'It is my education,' he said, as Jonah tugged at his coat from behind to get him out of the room. 'You educate them; they educate me; I improve slowly. Voilà!'

'But vairy slowly, n'est-ce pas? And you make up all such expériences like ze Wind-Vision to fill their minds.'

Nixie had told him that all their aventures filtered through to her, and that she kept a special cahier in her own room, where she wrote them all out in her own language. 'Another soul, perhaps, looking about for a safety-valve,' he thought swiftly.

'But, Mademoiselle, why not translate them into French? That's a good idea, and excellent practice for them.'

'Per'aps,' she laughed, 'per'aps we do that. C'est une idee au moins.'