Her heart rose in her throat.

For a moment she thought she would have fainted.
"You! You!" she choked out brokenly.

"Mon Dieu!" "Mademoiselle," began the man desperately, his confusion and dismay growing with every flying moment, "I----" "What do you here," she went on impetuously, finding voice, "in my bedroom at night?
I thought you----" "For God's sake hear me.

I came to----" and then he stopped lamely and in agonized embarrassment.
"For what did you come ?" she insisted.
"Mademoiselle," he said, throwing his head up, "I cannot tell you.

But when I was stationed here before this was the bedroom of the Commanding-Officer.