“None at all.”
They pushed their way through the crowd. The cardinal, who was tall, looked all around him, to try and see again the vision which had disappeared; but blue, white, and gray dominoes were everywhere, and he could distinguish no one. They had been some time in the carriage, and he had not yet spoken to Jeanne.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE EXAMINATION.
At last Jeanne said, “Where is this carriage taking me to, cardinal?”
“Back to your own house, countess.”
“My house—in the faubourg?”
“Yes, countess. A very small house to contain so many charms.”
They soon stopped. Jeanne alighted, and he was preparing to follow her, but she stopped him, and said, “It is very late, cardinal.”
“Adieu, then,” said he; and he drove away, absorbed with the scene at the ball.
Jeanne entered alone into her new house. Six lackeys waited for her in the hall, and she looked at them as calmly as though she had been used to it all her life.