I say, tell me now; cannot I write to the commander-in-chief about this?
a soldier has no right to be a deserter, has he?
tell me, you are a public man, and know everything except my heart." "Is it not too bad to tease me to-day ?" "Yes! but please! I have had few amusements of late.

I find it so dull without you to tease." Formal permission to tease being conceded, she went that instant on the opposite tack, and began to tell him how she had missed him, and how sorry she had been anything should have occurred to vex their kind good friend.

In short, Edouard spent a delightful day, for Rose took him one way to meet Josephine, who, she knew, was coming another.

At night the last embers of jealousy got quenched, for Josephine was a wife now, and had already begun to tell Camille all her little innocent secrets; and she told him all about Edouard and Rose, and gave him his orders; so he treated Rose with great respect before Edouard; but paid her no marked attention; also he was affable to Riviere, who, having ceased to suspect, began to like him.
In the course of the evening, the colonel also informed the baroness that he expected every day an order to join the army of the Rhine.
Edouard pricked his ears.
The baroness said no more than politeness dictated.

She did not press him to stay, but treated his departure as a matter of course.