Do you understand ?" "Yes, yes," answered Therese, shuddering.
Then, abruptly bending over the face of Laurent, she smothered it with kisses, and bursting into sobs, uttered these disjoined sentences amidst her tears: "Don't talk like that, for if you do, I shall lack the strength to leave you.

I shall remain here.

Give me courage rather.

Tell me we shall see one another again.

You have need of me, have you not?
Well, one of these days we shall find a way to live together." "Then come back, come back to-morrow," said Laurent.
"But I cannot return," she answered.