The children's teacher came and asked: 'Where is Madame?
When will she return ?' "The servants asked if they should serve the tea.

I entered the dining-room.

The children, Lise, the eldest girl, looked at me with fright, as if to question me, and she did not come.

The whole evening passed, and still she did not come.

Two sentiments kept succeeding each other in my soul,--hatred of her, since she tortured myself and the children by her absence, but would finally return just the same, and fear lest she might return and make some attempt upon herself.