In the midst of this great felicity which had appeased her, she had now had time for reflection.

The true facts of the case astonished her.
"You have loved me! Yet why did you not at once come to see me ?" "Your parents said that you cared for me no longer.

I also nearly died when learning that.

At last, I was determined to know the whole truth, and was sent away from the house, the door being absolutely closed against me, and I was forbidden to return." "Then they shut the door in your face?
Yet my mother told me that you did not love me, and I could but believe her, since having seen you several times with that young lady, Mademoiselle Claire, I thought naturally you were obeying your father." "No.

I was waiting.