Nay, Monsieur, I shall believe in my first teaching, and be deaf to yours." Again there was a spell of silence.

At last--"I have been thinking, Monsieur," she said, "of that other occasion on which you rode with me.
I remember that you said you had killed a man, and when I asked you why, you said that you had done it because he sought to kill you.

Was that the truth ?" "Assuredly, Mademoiselle.

We fought a duel, and it is customary in a duel for each to seek to kill the other." "But why was this duel fought ?" she cried, with some petulance.
"I fear me, Mademoiselle, that I may not answer you," I said, recalling the exact motives, and thinking how futile appeared the quarrel which Eugene de Canaples had sought with Andrea when viewed in the light of what had since befallen.
"Was the quarrel of your seeking ?" "In a measure it was, Mademoiselle." "In a measure!" she echoed.

Then persisting, as women will--"Will you not tell me what this measure was ?" "Tenez, Mademoiselle," I answered in despair; "I will tell you just so much as I may.