Wait until you hear what has happened!” There was a jubilant expression on Alain’s face when Kristy came out of her last class of the morning and found him out in the hall, waiting for her. His green eyes were shining, and the smile on his face was so big and bright that it made his entire face light up. “What is it? Alain, what happened?” His excitement, she was finding, was contagious. “Oh, Kristy. I do not know where to begin.” “Can’t you just come right out and tell me?” Alain’s smile faded into a frown. “Well ... I would like to, but it is not quite that simple.” “What are you talking about, Alain? What is not so simple? Now I’m really confused.” He hesitated for a moment before saying, “Kristy, I think you had better sit down. Come, let us go get some lunch. I will tell you then.” The ten minutes between the time Alain announced that he had some important news to tell her and the time that the two of them were finally sitting on a bench in a small park near the Sorbonne, holding croissants filled with ham and cheese, seemed endless to Kristy.
