Each time that she obtained a favorable deposition, she ran to Saniel to tell him, and then together they repeated that a conviction was impossible.
"You are sure, are you not?"
"Have I not always told you so?"
He had also said that Florentin could not be arrested, basing the accusation on the torn button, and he had said that certainly an 'ordonnance de non-lieu' would be given by the judge; but they wished to remember neither the one nor the other.
Things had reached this state, when one Saturday evening Phillis arrived at Saniel's, radiant.
As soon as the door opened she exclaimed:
"He is saved!"
"An ordonnance de non-lieu?"
"No; but now it is of little importance. We can go to the assizes."
She breathed a sigh which showed how great were her fears, in spite of the confidence she expressed when she repeated that conviction was impossible.