Dauvray for an interview with Mme.

de Montespan.

These details were assuredly the truth.
Ricardo, indeed, knew them to be true.

Had he not himself seen the girl in her black velvet dress shut up in a cabinet, and a great lady of the past dimly appear in the darkness?
Moreover, Helene Vauquier's jealousy was so natural and inevitable a thing.

Her confession of it corroborated all her story.
"Well, then," said Hanaud, "we come to last night.