"I will tell you outside.

Take me--take me out, if you please, Monsieur, at once!" He was as glad to be gone as she was to go.

The group by the doorway parted; she passed through it, he followed.

In a moment the two stood in the great gallery, above the Salle des Caryatides.

The crowd which had paraded here an hour before was gone, and the vast echoing apartment, used at that date as a guard-room, was well-nigh empty.