"Something serious has happened to him.

The truth! tell me the truth! Oh! it's shameful, it's heartless of both of you to deceive a wretched blind creature like me!" The doctor still hesitated.

I told her the truth.
"Where is he ?" she asked, seizing me by the two shoulders, and shaking me in the violence of her agitation.
I entreated her to wait a little; I tried to place her in a chair.

She pushed me contemptuously away, and went down on the floor on her hands and knees.

"I shall find him," she said to herself; "I shall find him in spite of them!" She began to crawl over the floor, feeling the empty space before her with her hand.