Why did not you come before and ask me?
I thought I was in your way.

I thought you wanted me dead." Josephine cast a look of wonder and anguish on Camille, but she said nothing.

She rang the bell, and, on Jacintha coming up, despatched her to Dr.Aubertin for the patient's medicine.
"Tell the doctor," said she, "Colonel Dujardin has let fall the glass." While Jacintha was gone, she scolded Camille gently.

"How could you be so unkind to the poor doctor who loves you so?
Only think: to throw away his medicines! Look at the ashes; they are wet.

Camille, are you, too, becoming disingenuous ?" Jacintha came in with the tonic in a glass, and retired with an obeisance.