But on the present occasion, after two days without seeing her, he was greatly pleased by her unexpected visit, and he came down immediately.
Leaning back in the cab, they drove through the darkness and the snow, at the quiet pace of their aged hack, through the streets and boulevards, while the darkness of the night cloaked their love-making.
At her door, having seen her home, he said: "Good-bye till to-morrow." "Yes, to-morrow, Boulevard de Villiers.

Come early." She was leaning on him preparatory to stepping down from the cab.
Suddenly she started back.
"There! There! Among the trees.

He has seen us.

He was watching us." "Who, then ?" "A man--some one I don't know." She had just recognized Chevalier.

She stepped out, rang the bell, and, nestling in Robert's fur coat, waited, trembling, for the door to open.
When it was opened, she detained him.
"Robert, see me upstairs, I am frightened." Not without some impatience, he followed her up the stairs.
Chevalier had waited for Felicie, in the little dining-room, before the armour which she had worn as Jeanne d'Arc, together with Madame Nanteuil, until one o'clock in the morning.