CHAPTER IV.
The faithful house-dog.
After supper they talked of Charlotte Corday.
Juliette clung to the vision of that heroine, and liked to talk of her.
She appeared as a justification of her own actions, which somehow seemed to require justification.
She loved to hear Paul Deroulede talk; liked to provoke his enthusiasm and to see his stern, dark face light up with the inward fire of the enthusiast.
She had openly avowed herself as the daughter of the Duc de Marny.

When she actually named her father, and her brother killed in duel, she saw Deroulede looking long and searchingly at her.

Evidently he wondered if she knew everything: but she returned his gaze fearlessly and frankly, and he apparently was satisfied.
Madame Deroulede seemed to know nothing of the circumstances of that duel.

Deroulede tried to draw Juliette out, to make her speak of her brother.

She replied to his questions quite openly, but there was nothing in what she said, suggestive of the fact that she knew who killed her brother.
She wanted him to know who she was.