There it is.

If he says anything about that ten-franc note being torn, tell him he tore it himself.

Go home, Lucia, and manage things as you can." Lucia put the money in her glove, and busied herself for a moment in brushing the dust from her clothes.

Mechanically, her father helped her.
"You are quite sure you did not hurt yourself ?" he asked.

The whole occurrence seemed indistinct, as though some one had told something which he had not understood--as we sometimes listen to a person reading aloud, and, missing by inattention the verb of the sentence, remain confused, and ask ourselves what the words mean.
"No--not at all.