"I do not go for nothing! You gave me the lives of all in the house, Monsieur! Of all!" she repeated with passion.
"And all are not here! Before I marry you, you must show me M.de Tignonville alive and safe!" He shrugged his shoulders.

"He has taken himself off," he said.

"It is naught to me what happens to him now." "It is all to me!" she retorted.
At that he glared at her, the veins of his forehead swelling suddenly.
But after a seeming struggle with himself he put the insult by, perhaps for future reckoning and account.
"I did what I could," he said sullenly.

"Had I willed it he had died there and then in the room below.

I gave him his life.