You would do--ah, but let me pass!" she said, with a sudden fury.

"You--if you were a million times richer, if you could ruin me for ever, do you think--" "Hush, Madame," he said, with a sudden change of voice and a manner all reverence.

"I do not think.

I spoke only to hear you speak in reply: only to know to the uttermost what you were.

Madame," he added, in a shaking voice, "I did not know that such a woman lived.