"I'm sure he used to weary you many a night—isn't that so?"
This time, she had an access of frankness, and she replied:
"Oh! yes."
He embraced her once more when she made this acknowledgment, and murmured:
"What an ass he was! You were not happy with him?"
She answered:
"No. He was not always jolly."
Leuillet felt quite delighted, making a comparison in his own mind between his wife's former situation and her present one.
He remained silent for some time: then, with a fresh outburst of merit, he said:
"Tell me this!"