CHAPTER XIV. JEALOUSY
When Honorât de Berrol entered Reine’s apartment, Stephanette wished to retire so as to leave the two lovers alone.
She took one step toward the door, but Reine said to her, quickly, in a voice full of emotion, “Remain.”
Then, scarcely able to control her feelings, she bowed her head and hid her face in her hands.
Honorât, astonished beyond expression, did not know what to think.
The Bohemian had closed the medallion containing the portrait of Erebus, and had placed it on the table.
The captain of the Holy Terror to the Moors vainly tried to catch Stephanette’s eye, but she seemed as anxious to avoid his glance.
Luquin Trinquetaille was the more sensible of her conduct inasmuch as he recognised on the Bohemian’s collar the flame-coloured ribbon, which was the exact counterpart of what Stephanette wore on her waist.
This observation on his part, together with several perfidious insinuations made by Master Laramée, who had just been taking a glass with Luquin, suddenly aroused the lover’s jealousy.
He looked at the Singer angrily, then, meeting Ste-phanette’s eyes by chance, he executed a most complicated pantomime with his left hand, which was meant to ask the young girl why the Singer had a ribbon like the one hanging from her ruff.