His emotion died down.

He drew back, and stood rigid before her.
"And if it were to live, Citoyenne," he said--the resumption of the Republican form of address showed that he had stepped back into the spirit as well as in the flesh "what manner of fool were I to again submit it to the lash of scorn it earned when first it was discovered ?" "But that belonged to the old days," she cried, "and it is dead with the old days.' "It is vain to go back, Citoyenne," he cut in, and his voice rang harsh with determination.
She bit her lip under cover of her bent head.

If she had hated him before how much more did she not hate him now?
And but a moment back it had seemed to her that she had loved him.

She had held out her hands to him and he had scorned them; in her eagerness she had been unmaidenly, and all that she had earned had been humiliation.

She quivered with shame and anger, and sinking into the nearest chair she burst into a passion of tears.
Thus by accident did she stumble upon the very weapon wherewith to make an utter rout of all Caron's resolutions.