"You mean, thank God he wasn't sooner, don't you, darling ?" amended Raoul.
"Yes, of course.

How stupid I am!" I murmured.
All along, then, Godensky had meant to get my promise and deceive me, for I had not even sent my note of defiance when this trick was played.
Had the treaty been missing, and Raoul disgraced, Godensky would no doubt have vowed to me--if I'd lived to hear his vows--that he had had no hand in the discovery.

Fear of the terrible man who had so nearly beaten me in the game made me quiver even now.

"You see," I went on, "I can think of nothing but you, and my love for you.

You'll never be jealous and make me miserable again, will you, no matter what Count Godensky or any other wretched creature may say of me to you ?" "I've listened to Godensky for the last time," said Raoul.