Pray let me send for some more champagne.

No?
Promise to ring when you want it.

That's right! _Au revoir_, my charming friend--_au revoir!_" I pulled the door to again the moment his back was turned, and sat down for a while to compose myself.
He had been watching me at the book-case! The man who was in my husband's confidence, the man who knew where the clew was to be found, had been watching me at the book-case! There was no doubt of it now.
Major Fitz-David had shown me the hiding-place of the secret in spite of himself! I looked with indifference at the other pieces of furniture, ranged against the fourth wall, which I had not examined yet.

I surveyed, without the slightest feeling of curiosity, all the little elegant trifles scattered on the tables and on the chimney-piece, each one of which might have been an object of suspicion to me under other circumstances.

Even the water-color drawings failed to interest me in my present frame of mind.