“Will you be patient, and not betray us?”
“I swear.”
“Well, the cardinal is acquitted.”
“I know it.”
“M. de Cagliostro and Mademoiselle Oliva are also acquitted, M. Reteau condemned to the galleys——”
“And I?” cried Jeanne, furiously.
“Madame, you promised to be patient.”
“See—speak—I am calm.”
“Banished,” said the woman, feebly.
A flash of delight shone for a moment in the eyes of the countess; then she pretended to faint, and threw herself into the arms of Madame Hubert. “What would it have been,” thought she, “if I had told her the truth!”