"Is that all?"
"In esteem."
"Is that all?"
"In sympathy."
"Ah! madame, one word more!" cried Canolles. "Why should it cost you so dear to make me altogether happy?"
Claire stepped quickly toward him, put out her hand, and opened her mouth to add:—
"In love."
But simultaneously with her mouth, the door was thrown open and the pseudo-captain of the guards appeared upon the threshold, accompanied by Pompée.
"I will finish at Jaulnay," said the viscountess.
"Your sentence, or your thought?"