"No."
"Where is he?"
"We do not know."
"But that fatal night—"
"He came home, and was slightly wounded in the fray, but no one has seen him since."
"And that strange attack upon the house, those frightful but incomprehensible words which were uttered by Mlle. Sabine, and which I seemed to hear as in a dream after I was hurt. These things puzzle me so. Explain them, I beg of you."
"In your present state of mind I can see that a refusal on my part might prove dangerous."
"Yes, very dangerous."
"But I repeat that you must have courage, for—"
"I will, aunt, I will."