To hatred distrust was now added, and distrust put the finishing touch to their folly.
They were afraid of each other.

The scene that had followed the demand for 5,000 francs, was repeated morning and night.

They had the fixed idea that they wanted to give one another up.

From that standpoint they did not depart.

When either of them said a word, or made a gesture, the other imagined that he or she, as the case might be, intended to go to the commissary of police.