He addressed himself to me at once.
"I have ordered my carriage, mademoiselle, to take you back this evening to the Avenue du Midi.

If you will do as Zara tells you, and explain to your friends the necessity there is for your being under the personal supervision of your doctor, you will find everything will arrange itself very naturally.

And the sooner you come here the better--in fact, Zara will expect you here to-morrow early in the afternoon.

I may rely upon you ?" He spoke with a certain air of command, evidently expecting no resistance on my part.

Indeed, why should I resist?
Already I loved Zara, and wished to be more in her company; and then, most probably, my complete restoration to health would be more successfully and quickly accomplished if I were actually in the house of the man who had promised to cure me.