When this change had been made Eve seemed to throw off a burden.

She met Hilliard with something like the ease of manner, the frank friendliness, which marked her best moods in their earlier intercourse.
At a restaurant dinner, to which he persuaded her in company with Patty, she was ready in cheerful talk, and an expedition to Versailles, some days after, showed her radiant with the joy of sunshine and movement.

Hilliard could not but wonder at the success of his prescription.
He did not visit the girls in their new abode, and nothing more was said of his making the acquaintance of Mdlle.Roche.Meetings were appointed by post-card--always in Patty's hand if the initiative were female; they took place three or four times a week.

As it was now necessary for Eve to make payments on her own account, Hilliard despatched to her by post a remittance in paper money, and of this no word passed between them.

Three weeks later he again posted the same sum.