But the change was too sudden not to arouse Marius’s suspicions.
“I want a great many things,” he replied.
“Still you must specify.”
“Well, I claim first the five hundred thousand francs which my father had settled upon his daughter,—the daughter whom you cast off.”
“And what next?”
“I want besides, my own and my father’s fortune, of which we have been robbed by M. de Thaller, with your assistance, madame.”
“Is that all, at least?”
M. de Tregars shook his head.
“That’s nothing yet,” he replied.
“Oh!”