Etienne Laurier! She always shuddered with fear on recalling that hour.

For a moment she believed that he was going to kill her.

Serious men, quiet and diffident, are most terrible in their explosions of wrath.

Her husband knew everything.

With the same patience that he employed in solving his industrial problems, he had been studying her day by day, without her ever suspecting the watchfulness behind that impassive countenance.