"What is her full name?"
"Mathilde Louise Grassier."
"Where does she belong?"
"She said once that she was born in Rouen; and I suppose she was brought up there, too, from her frequent references to that place. I believe she went from there to Paris, as lady's-maid in an English family, and from thence to London."
"How did you happen to get her?"
"My father obtained her for me in London."
"What is her character? Is she cunning?"
"Not as far as I have ever seen. She always struck me as being quite weak out of her own particular department. She was an excellent lady's-maid, but in other respects quite a child."
"Might she not have been very deep, nevertheless?"
"It is possible. I am not much of a judge of character; but, as far as I could see, she was simply a weak, good-natured creature. I don't think she would willingly do wrong; but I think she might be very easily terrified or persuaded. I think her flight from me was the work of Gualtier."