Faith and works.
"One must venture something, sometimes, in the cause of religion," thought she, as she started timorously on her way.

But she had not gone a dozen steps before she repented her temerity.

There was some one behind her.
There should not be any thing terrible in a footstep merely because it is masculine; but Madame Delphine's mind was not prepared to consider that.

A terrible secret was haunting her.

Yesterday morning she had found a shoe-track in the garden.