"Was it likely?
With whom was I to go?
And yet it is true, I might have gone home had I pleased--with M.de Tavannes! Yes," she continued, in a tone of keen reproach, and with the blood mounting to her forehead, "it is to that, Monsieur, you expose me! To be pursued, molested, harassed by a man whose look terrifies me, and whose touch I--I detest! To be addressed wherever I go by a man whose every word proves that he thinks me game for the hunter, and you a thing he may neglect.

You are a man and you do not know, you cannot know what I suffer! What I have suffered this week past whenever you have left my side!" Tignonville looked gloomy.

"What has he said to you ?" he asked, between his teeth.
"Nothing I can tell you," she answered, with a shudder.

"It was he who took me into the Chamber." "Why did you go ?" "Wait until he bids you do something," she answered.

"His manner, his smile, his tone, all frighten me.