She determined to profit by his absence, and besought Mlle.

Moiseney to make ready in haste to accompany her to Paris, where she had to confer with her dressmaker.

Ten minutes later she stepped into her carriage, having ordered her coachman to drive like the wind.
Her dressmaker did not detain her long; from the Rue de la Paix she ordered to be driven to No.

27 Rue Mouffetard.

She never was in the habit of permitting Mlle.