This time Madeleine answered at once: "Yes, oh yes, I shall keep the pharmacy open. I already know about the accounts and the simple things.
And I have thought how I can study my husband"s books on pharmacy, at night after the children are in bed. I can learn. Jules learned."
She stooped to pick up her basket. The other woman went her way.
Madeleine stepped forward into a new and awful and wonderful world along a new and th.o.r.n.y and danger-beset path into a new and terrifying and pleasureless life.
A wave of something stern and mighty swelled within her. She put down her head and walked forward strongly, as though breasting and conquering a great wind.