It was indeed into the neighborhood of the atelier occupied by Maitland that the discarded lover hastened, but not to the atelier.

The madman wished to prove to himself that the exhibition of his despair had availed him nothing, and that, scarcely rid of him, Madame Steno had repaired to the other.

What would it avail him to know it and what would the evidence prove?
Had the Countess concealed those sittings--those convenient sittings--as the jealous lover had told Dorsenne?
The very thought of them caused the blood to flow in his veins much more feverishly than did the thoughts of the other meetings.

For those he could still doubt, notwithstanding the anonymous letters, notwithstanding the tete-a-tete on the terrace, notwithstanding the insolent "Linco," whom she had addressed thus before him, while of the long intimacies of the studio he was certain.

They maddened him, and, at the same time, by that strange contradiction which is characteristic of all jealousy, he hungered and thirsted to prove them.
He alighted from his cab at the corner he had named to his cabman, and from which point he could watch the Rue Leopardi, in which was his rival's house.