the first
time,
attended
school.
They had
all of
them in
their
families
heard of
La
Blanchotte;
and
although
in public
she was
welcome
enough,
the
mothers
among
themselves
treated
her with
compassion
of a some
what
disdainful
kind,
which the
children
had caught
without in
the least
knowing
why. As
for Simon
himself,
they did
not know
him, for
he never
went
abroad,
and did
not play
around
with them
through
the
