"The truth is, don't you see—you thought I was dead, didn't you?"
"Certainly we did."
"You will agree that as you were mistaken, I also might be."
"What? In believing that we also were dead? You were perfectly free."
"Now that's it. You see, as you died intestate," continued Maître La Hurière.
"Go on"—
"I believed something, I was mistaken, I see it now"—
"Tell us, what was it you believed?"
"I believed that I might consider myself your heir."
"Oho!" exclaimed the two young men.