What shall I do ?" She was speaking to herself, and not to her companion now, and she looked impatiently towards the pier where Lucia was slowly coming back.
Presently she recovered herself a little, and asked a few more questions about Bailey.

She gathered from the answers that he had been some time at Bourg-Cailloux, getting gradually more poverty-stricken and utterly disreputable.

That he was now wandering about without a home, or money even for gambling.

She knew enough of the man to be certain that under such circumstances he would snatch at any means of obtaining money, and what means easier, if he only knew it, than to threaten and persecute her.

And at any moment he might discover her--her very acquaintance with Father Paul might betray her to him.