2/10 In his eyes, no one was better fitted to save it a second time than he who had saved it the first. It was with these sentiments in his heart that he now came to confer with his brother. "I have been waiting for you impatiently." "So I suspected. But I was obliged to wait until I could leave without being noticed." "Did you manage it ?" "Yes; Talma was relating a story about Marat and Dumouriez. Interesting as it was, I deprived myself of the pleasure, and here I am." "I have just heard a carriage driving away; the person who got in it couldn't have seen you coming up my private stairs, could he ?" "The person who drove off was myself, the carriage was mine. |