In a little while, she came back with a man, who removed the trunk to her humble dwelling-place.

Thence we will follow them.
"And now, my dear Eugenia," said Mrs.Gaston, after they had become settled down, and their minds had assumed a more even flow, "clear up to me this strange mystery.

Why are you here, and in this destitute condition?
How did you escape death?
Tell me all, or I shall still think myself only in the bewildering mazes of a dream.".