"Ah! well, this is news! It is as if some one had given me a stunner on the head—Germain—who looked so honest; who would have died without confession!"
"One would have said that he had a presentiment of his misfortune."
"Why?"
"For some time past he looked as if something troubled him."
"It was, perhaps, concerning Louise."
"Louise?"
"Oh! I only repeat what Mother Seraphin said this morning,"
"What?"
"That he was the lover of Louise, and the—"
"Oh! the cunning fellow."