No remark or inquiry concerning her health passed his lips; he saw that she was recovering from the crisis she had passed through, whatever its real nature.

Eve shook hands with him, and smiled, though as if discharging an obligation.
"Can you spare time to show us something of Paris ?" she asked.
"I am your official guide.

Make use of me whenever it pleases you." "I don't feel able to go very far.

Isn't there some place where we could sit down in the open air ?" A carriage was summoned, and they drove to the Fields Elysian.

Eve benefited by the morning thus spent.