For she understood now; and he saw that she did, and had he been alone he would have slunk away, and said no word in his defence.
But one of the men, savage and out of patience, thrust himself between them.
"Where is he ?" he muttered.

"What is the use of this?
Where is he ?" And his bloodshot eyes--it was Tuez-les-Moines--questioned the doors, while his hand, trembling and shaking on the haft of his knife, bespoke his eagerness.

"Where is he?
Where is he, woman?
Quick, or--" "I shall not tell you," she answered.
"You lie," he cried, grinning like a dog.

"You will tell us! Or we will kill you too! Where is he?
Where is he ?" "I shall not tell you," she repeated, standing before him in the fearlessness of scorn.

"Another step and I rouse the house! M.de Tignonville, to you who know me, I swear that if this man does not retire--" "He is in one of these rooms ?" was Tignonville's answer.