He must not be dead but unfaithful.

At this all the pride of her race was fired in her.
The struggle between love and ire was almost too much for nature: violently gay and moody by turns she alarmed both her mother and the good Dr.Aubertin.The latter was not, I think, quite without suspicion of the truth; however, he simply prescribed change of air and place; she must go to Frejus, a watering-place distant about five leagues.
Mademoiselle de Beaurepaire yielded a languid assent.

To her all places were alike.
But when they returned from Frejus a change had taken place.

Rose had extracted her sister's secret, and was a changed girl.

Pity, and the keen sense of Josephine's wrong, had raised her sisterly love to a passion.