DOROTHEA CONFESSES She saw no more of him, and heard very little, before the Court Martial met.

No one acquainted with the code of that age--so strait-laced in its proprieties, so full-blooded in its vices--will need to be told that she never dreamed of asking her brother's permission to visit the Prisoners' Infirmary.

He reported--once a day, perhaps, and casually-- that the patient was doing well.

Dorothea ventured once to sound General Rochambeau, but the old aristocrat answered stiffly that he took no interest in _declasses_, and plainly hinted that, in his judgment, M.Raoul had sinned past pardon; which but added to her remorse.

From time to time she obtained some hearsay news through Polly; but Polly's chief interest now lay in her approaching marriage.
For the Commissary, while accepting Raoul's version of his capture, had an intuitive gift which saved him from wholly believing in it.