"Arrested? Did you say arrested?"
"Why this emotion?" replied her husband smiling.
"Answer me! I beg of you!"
"He was warned in time, and has eluded the police, but they have searched his house."
"I breathe," said Mathilde. "Is that all you know?"
"Provided with a passport he will probably leave for Austria or Prussia. He is a strange man, I never could understand his character."
His wife smiled. Henri was annoyed at this mocking smile and said:--
"It seems to amuse you that he should, be an enigma to me."
"Not at all. It is very natural. Your characters are so dissimilar, that you could not possibly understand each other."
Henri replied, with some bitterness:--