You would rather I lived than died ?" Madame Granson looked at her son with a haggard eye.
"So this is what you have been brooding ?" she said.

"They told me right.
Do you really mean to go ?" "Yes." "You will not go without telling me; without warning me?
You must have an outfit and money.

I have some louis sewn into my petticoat; I shall give them to you." Athanase wept.
"That's all I wanted to tell you," he said.

"Now I'll take you to the du Roncerets'.

Come." The mother and the son went out.