Rising in agitation the lady went to the judge's desk and spoke to him inaudibly.
"Really!" he exclaimed, eying her in surprise as she stood before him, face down, the picture of shame.
"I have only two questions to ask," he proceeded. "Look at this man and tell me if you know him," he pointed to the accused.
She shook her head and answered in a low tone: "I never saw him before this afternoon."
"You met him at Madam Cecile's?"
"Ye-es," very faintly.
"And he paid you five hundred francs to go out of the house with him?"
She nodded but did not speak.
"That was the only service you were to render, was it, for this sum of money, simply to leave the house with him and drive away in a carriage?"
"That was all."