They have already given out to their neighbours that Victor's fiance is coming to help nurse him, and even if by any possibility a suspicion of your real position arises, you have Robespierre's pardon as a protection.

This state of things cannot last for ever; a reaction must come; and then if Victor is cured, you will be able to escape together to England." "Leave me a few minutes by myself, Harry.

All this has come so suddenly upon me that I feel bewildered." "Certainly," Harry said.

"It is best that you should think things over a little.

No wonder you feel bewildered and shaken with all the trials you have gone through." Marie went to her room and returned in a quarter of an hour.
"I am ready now," she said, and by the calm and tranquil expression of her face Harry felt that she could be trusted to see Victor.
"I have a feeling," she went on, "that everything will come right in the end.