Your mother will not always be so blind as of late.
Edouard is suspicious.

Jacintha is a shrewd young woman, and very inquisitive." Josephine was not at the end of her concealments: she was ashamed to let him know she had made a confidant of Jacintha and not of him.

She held her peace.
"Then," continued Aubertin, "there is the terrible chance of Raynal's return.

But ere I take on me to advise you, what are your own plans ?" "I don't know," said Josephine helplessly.
"You--don't--know!" cried the doctor, looking at her in utter amazement.
"It is the answer of a mad woman, is it not?
Doctor, I am little better.
My foot has slipped on the edge of a precipice.

I close my eyes, and let myself glide down it.