With an "Excuse me" he passed her without looking at her, and entered the kitchen, to ask for a little bread and some water, for he had been fasting since the night before.
Jeanne was trembling like a leaf.

He had asked for her! The words and the opportunity thus offered made her dizzy.

Noiselessly she mounted the stairs.

Noiselessly she pushed the door open.

The sister saw her, and started to rise.