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Rh life's painful circumstance, does from time to time obtain a complete holiday for her children.

"I have never seen Paul enjoy a feast like this before; it is your doing, Lisa." We were coming out of the chapel as Marcelle spoke. A glow of hope and joy filled my mind. As she spoke Paul came towards us. We went to meet him and he took my hand in his.

"Tu es contente?" he said, quite tenderly, and in his native tongue for the first time to me.

Marcelle called, "George, where are you?"

He came to us in the dark passage, and I smiled my happiness to him. He took Marcelle's hand, and we stood for a moment opposite to each other, we two couples.

"Gaudeamus omnes in Domino" "Let us all rejoice in the Lord," sang George in a sudden outburst, from the Introit of the Mass, which we had just sung together in the chapel. Gaudeamus, we all sang together once again.

"Let us spend every Feast of the Assumption here together," said Marcelle. "May we not, Paul? May we not? And sing Gaudeamus and Assumpta est Maria just we four together. Paul, do say that we may."

I can hear her voice close to me now. And we were in fact never to sing Gaudeamus together again.