"And Bertha has met the prince twice at Pierre Raimond's."
"Him—met him?"
"Under a false name, Arnold Schneider."
"Ah! now I see through it all!" said the princess, pressing both her hands against her brow.
"What, godmother?"
"You shall know by and by; leave me now."
Iris left the apartment.
Some minutes afterwards, deceived by the treacherous language of Iris, M. de Brévannes, maddened by his insensate hopes, covered with passionate kisses the note which he believed to have been written by the Princess de Hansfeld.