I read the letter which he prepared for Maitland and for me in case of accident...." "Should I be in the state in which you see me if it were not true ?" "Oh, I believe you!" cried Maud, pressing her hands to her eyelids, as if to shut out a horrible sight.

"But where can they be seen?
Boleslas has been here scarcely any of the time for two days.

What is there between them?
What have they said to one another?
One does not risk one's life for nothing when he has, like Boleslas, a wife and a son.
Answer me, I conjure you.

Tell me all.

I desire to know all.