“Would to heavens it were only that!”
But the news that Sabine was not worse relieved Andre at once, and he patiently waited for his friend to explain.
“I have seen her twice for you,” answered De Breulh; “but it is absolutely necessary that you should come to a prompt decision on an important affair.”
“I am quite at your service,” returned Andre a good deal surprised and troubled.
“Then come with me at once, I did not drive here, but we shall not be more than a quarter of an hour in reaching my house.”
“I will follow you almost immediately. I only ask five minutes’ grace to go up to the scaffold again.”
“Have you any orders to give?”
“No, I have none.”
“Why should you go, then?”
“To make myself a little more presentable.”