de Lorcy hastened to Mons and nursed him like a mother; she had the joy of bringing him back alive to Paris.
Care was taken that no mention of the duel should be made to Mlle.
Moriaz, and not a word concerning it reached her; her condition for a long time caused the gravest anxiety.

After she became convalescent she remained sunk in a gloomy, taciturn sadness.

She never made the least allusion to what had passed, and would not permit any one to speak of it to her.

She had been deceived, and a mortification, mingled with dread, was the result of her mistake.

It seemed to her that nothing remained in life for her but remembrance and silence.
Towards the end of November, M.Moriaz proposed to her that they should return to Paris.