The girl parted her lips to speak, but she only smiled piteously; and it was M.de Tignonville who broke the silence, in a tone which betrayed rather relief than any other feeling.
"Come, all is not lost yet," he said briskly.

"If I can escape from the house--" "He knows you," she answered.
"What ?" "He knows you," Mademoiselle repeated in a tone almost apathetic.

"I read it in his eyes.

He knew you at once: and knew, too," she added bitterly, "that he had here under his hand one of the two things he required." "Then why did he hide his knowledge ?" the young man retorted sharply.
"Why ?" she answered.

"To induce me to waive the other condition in the hope of saving you.