"I am too ill to see anything.

The cards were to me perfectly blank!" In the bright sunlight now pouring into the little room the soothsayer looked ghastly, her skin had turned a greenish white.
"Mesdames, I beg you to excuse me," she said again.

"If you do not wish to give me the five francs, I will not exact any fee." She pointed with a shaking finger to the door, and Sylvia put a five-franc piece down on the table.
But before her visitors had quite groped their way to the end of the short, steep staircase, they heard a cry.
"Mesdames!" then after a moment's pause, "Mesdames, I implore you to come back!" They looked at one another, and then Anna, putting her finger to her lips, went back up the stairs, alone.
"Well," she said, briefly, "I knew you had something to tell me.

What is it ?" "No," said Madame Cagliostra dully.

"I must have the other lady here, too.