"Oh, it's just the same."
"Which means——"
"That I think he has got—well—a little cool. But there is something else that has upset me to-day."
"What is it?"
"Oh, well! it is an event that really does not concern me at all; but it has made me feel wretched all the same." She avoided looking at Bijou as she continued: "You know that—Lisette Renaud?"
"Yes. Well?"
"Well, she is dead—this morning."
"Dead!—What of?"
"People think she killed herself," said Jeanne, almost in a whisper.
"But how?"