Antoinette rose and exclaimed: "I was to meet him at the pretty little gate that you see from here! He will have the right to be angry if I keep him waiting." At once she hastened towards the balustered steps that led from the terrace to the orchard.

M.Langis followed her, seeking to detain her.
"You need not see him again," said he.

"I will meet him.

Pray, charge me with your explanations." She repelled him and replied, in a voice of authority: "I wish to see him, no one but I can say to him what I have in my heart.

I command you to remain here; I intend that he shall blame no one but me." She added with a curl of the lips meant for a smile: "You must remember, I do not believe yet that I have been deceived; I will not believe it until I have read the lie in his eyes." She hastily descended into the orchard, and, during five minutes, her eye fixed on the gate, she waited for Samuel Brohl.