It was Ligny who saw you home, I know it.

He brought you back in a cab, I heard it stop outside the house." As she did not reply, he continued: "Deny it, if you can!" She remained silent, and he repeated, in an urgent, almost appealing tone: "Tell me he didn't!" Had she been so inclined, she might, with a phrase, with a single word, with a tiny movement of head or shoulders, have rendered him perfectly submissive, and almost happy.

But she maintained a malicious silence.
With compressed lips and a far-off look in her eyes, she seemed as though lost in a dream.
He sighed hoarsely.
"Fool that I was, I didn't think of that! I told myself you would come home, as on other nights, with Madame Doulce, or else alone.

If I had only known that you were going to let that fellow see you home!" "Well, what would you have done, had you known it ?" "I should have followed you, by God!" She stared at him with hard, unnaturally bright eyes.
"That I forbid you to do! Understand me! If I learn that you have followed me, even once, I'll never see you again.

To begin with, you haven't the right to follow me.