In a way I had little cause to fear the harm the Chevalier might do me, but I was impelled to consider the harm that at the same time he might do the Vicomte.
Despite our growing enmity, the Chevalier and I were very frequently thrown together.

The reason for this was, of course, that wherever Roxalanne was to be found there, generally, were we both to be found also.

Yet had I advantages that must have gone to swell a rancour based as much upon jealousy as any other sentiment, for whilst he was but a daily visitor at Lavedan, I was established there indefinitely.
Of the use that I made of that time I find it difficult to speak.

From the first moment that I had beheld Roxalanne I had realized the truth of Chatellerault's assertion that I had never known a woman.

He was right.
Those that I had met and by whom I had judged the sex had, by contrast with this child, little claim to the title.