She has admitted that M.Larinski is a perfectly honourable and even a delightful man; but she has discovered, at intervals of several days, first, that he does not love me, and then, that he has deceived me by letting me believe that he was still free.

I wish to satisfy my own mind, and convince myself that I am not being played with." "And you have concluded----" "I have concluded that, with your permission, we shall leave to-morrow morning for Cormeilles." This conclusion was by no means agreeable to M.Moriaz, whose face grew sensibly longer.
"Of what are you afraid?
You know that I have character, and you ought to know, no matter what Mme.

de Lorcy says, that I am not wanting in good sense.

When it is proved to me that I have deceived myself, I will make the sign of the cross over my romance; it will be dead and buried, and I promise you not to wear mourning for it." "So be it," said he; "I believe in your good sense, I have faith in your reason: we shall leave to-morrow for Cormeilles." Four days later, Mme.

de Lorcy was walking in an alley in her park.
She was joined there by M.Langis, to whom she said, in a good-humoured tone: "Always grave and melancholy, my dear Camille! When will you cease your drooping airs?
I cannot understand you.