The woman of whom you speak came once with you, and twice afterwards with another." He hesitated.
"With another, who came to see you every month--is it not so, monseigneur ?" "Yes." "Do you know who this lady was ?" The light seemed ready to flash from the prisoner's eyes.

"I am aware that she was one of the ladies of the court," he said.
"You remember that lady well, do you not ?" "Oh, my recollection can hardly be very confused on this head," said the young prisoner.

"I saw that lady once with a gentleman about forty-five years old.

I saw her once with you, and with the lady dressed in black.
I have seen her twice since then with the same person.

These four people, with my master, and old Perronnette, my jailer, and the governor of the prison, are the only persons with whom I have ever spoken, and, indeed, almost the only persons I have ever seen." "Then you were in prison ?" "If I am a prisoner here, then I was comparatively free, although in a very narrow sense--a house I never quitted, a garden surrounded with walls I could not climb, these constituted my residence, but you know it, as you have been there.