CHAPTER XV.
WITH MADAM THE BARONESS It is not for good women that men have fought battles, given their lives and staked their souls .-- _Mrs.W.K.

Clifford_.
"But, Madam--" I began.
She answered me in her own way.

"Monsieur hesitates--he is lost!" she said.

"But see, I am weary.

I have been much engaged to-day.