Frederick, as if waking up with a start, saw the baseness towards which she was urging him.
"Well?" she said after a pause.
He raised his eyes towards the second floor. Madame Arnoux's lamp was burning. In fact there was nothing to prevent him from going up.
"I am going to wait for you here. Go on, then!"
This direction had the effect of chilling him, and he said:
"I shall be a long time up there; you would do better to return home. I will call on you to-morrow."
"No, no!" replied the Vatnaz, stamping with her foot. "Take him with you! Bring him there! Let him catch them together!"
"But Delmar will no longer be there."
She hung down her head.
"Yes; that's true, perhaps."