He is a great friend of yours ?" "He was," the girl at her feet whispered.
Jeanne found herself shaking.

She stooped down.
"What do you mean ?" she whispered.
Kate looked up from the ground.

She raised herself a little.

For a moment her eyes flashed.
"I mean," she said, "that before you came he was more than a friend.

It was you who drove his thoughts of me away.