"Be happy then," she said. "Your happiness will be mine. I say no more about myself. I ask nothing; you are free. But would you care to see your daughter?"
"Would I, indeed! You cannot doubt it!"
"Then come and lunch with me tomorrow and you shall."
She gave him her address, but without adding her name.
"My people will know," she said. "They will show you in."
She left, deeply affected by what had passed.
"What would have become of me," she said to herself in terror, "what should I have done, if I had never had the opportunity of winning his esteem and his love in another aspect?"
[XII]
That night was spent by Léon in the greatest agitation.