Now that she realized it, she felt terribly disgusted.
Cayrol anxiously watched the increasing anguish depicted on his wife's face.

He had a presentiment that she was hiding something from him, and the thought nearly choked him.

And, with this suspicion, his ingenuity came to his aid.

He approached Jeanne, and said, affectionately: "Come, dear child, we are misleading one another; I in speaking too harshly, you in refusing to understand me.

Forget that I am your husband; see in me only a friend and open your heart; your resistance hides a mystery.