It had left her not only in a better position, but with a new confidence in her power over her adversary.

He would insist on the bargain struck between them; within its four corners she could look for no indulgence.

But if the conditions proved to be beyond his power, she believed that he would spare her: with an ill grace, indeed, with such ferocity and coarse reviling as her woman's pride might scarcely support.

But he would spare her.
And if the worst befell her?
She would still have the consolation of knowing that from the cataclysm which had overwhelmed her friends she had ransomed those most dear to her.

Owing to the position of her chamber, she saw nothing of the excesses to which Paris gave itself up during the remainder of that day, and to which it returned with unabated zest on the following morning.