“Then,” he resumed, “all is really over?”
“Of course.”
“Then I have been duped like the rest,—like that poor Marquis de Tregars, whom you had made mad also. But he, at least saved his honor; whereas I—And I have no excuse; for I should have known. I knew that you were but the bait which the Baron de Thaller held out to his victims.”
He waited for an answer; but she maintained a contemptuous silence.
“Then you think,” he said with a threatening laugh, “that it will all end that way?”
“What can you do?”
“There is such a thing as justice, I imagine, and judges too. I can give myself up, and reveal every thing.”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“That would be throwing yourself into the wolf’s mouth for nothing,” she said. “You know better than any one else that my precautions are well enough taken to defy any thing you can do or say. I have nothing to fear.”
“Are you quite sure of that?”