This adventure had come to an unforeseen end that agreeably surprised him.

It distinctly showed him that he had done wrong to tremble, and that he, in his turn, should try vice, in order to see whether such a course would not relieve him by diverting his thoughts.
On returning to the shop in the evening, Laurent decided that he would ask his wife for a few thousand francs, and that he would resort to high-handed measures to obtain them.

Reflection told him that vice would be an expensive thing, for a man.

He patiently awaited Therese, who had not yet come in.

When she arrived, he affected gentleness, and refrained from breathing a word about having followed her in the morning.