You'll make inquiries at once, won't you ?" "Did you love your husband, Madame Brandt ?" I asked.
She looked at the fire for some time without replying.

She stood with one foot on the fender.
"I thought I did when I married him," she said at last.

"I thought I did when he left me." "And now ?" She turned her golden eyes full on me.

It is a disconcerting trick of hers at any time, because her eyes are at once wistful and compelling; but on this occasion it was startling.

They held mine for some seconds, and I caught in them a glimpse of the hieroglyphic of the woman's soul.
Then she turned her head slowly and looked again into the fire.
"Now ?" she echoed.