"No."
"Oh! that is very cruel."
"At each moment the poor woman asked for him, saying continually, 'Oh! he will come! oh! he will surely come;' and yet she died, and he had not come."
"Her end must have been so much the more painful."
"Oh, Lord, yes; for she dreaded so much what they would do to her body."
"After having been rich and happy, to die here is sad! For us, it is only a change of misery."
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE VISIT.
"Speaking of that," resumed La Lorraine, after a moment's hesitation, "I wish you would render me a service."
"Speak."