Her dilating eyes seemed fixed on something distant in space or time, at some horrible thing coming slowly towards her.

She did not see Camille approach her, but the moment she felt him she turned upon him swiftly.
"Do you love me ?" still in the hoarse voice that had so little in it of Josephine.

"I mean, does one grain of respect or virtue mingle in your love for me ?" "What words are these, my wife ?" "Then leave Raynal's house upon the instant.

You wonder I can be so cruel?
I wonder too; and that I can see my duty so clear in one short moment.

But I have lived twenty years since that letter came.