'Or, if you have not heard it, you guess it ?' I was in a quandary, and grew, in one second, hot all over.

Uncertain what amount of knowledge I ought to admit, I took refuge in gallantry.
'I should be surprised if he did not,' I answered, with a bow, 'being, as he is, so close, and having such an inducement to return, Madame.' She drew a long, shivering sigh, at the thought of his peril, I fancied, and she sat back against the wall.

Nor did she say any more, though I heard her sigh again.

In a moment she rose.
'The afternoons are growing chilly,' she said; 'I will go in and see how Mademoiselle is.

Sometimes she does not come to supper.