She shook her Mænad’s locks, and refused.
“Donovan proposed that to me. No, Lerne has promised me I shall be rich; besides, on the day you arrived, he swore he would kill me if I deceived him, or tried to escape. I found out long ago that he could fulfill his first threat, and I know now that he could carry out the second.”
“That is true. When he introduced us to one another, you had the shadow of death in your eyes.”
“Now,” she went on, “we can hide our love, but we could not hide our running away. No, no, let us stop where we are, and keep our eyes open. Let us be careful.”
Half-past four was striking on the clock when I left my mistress, in order to return to Grey-l’Abbaye.
CHAPTER VIII
RASHNESS
I made my way as fast as I could back to Grey. The fête was in full swing, and the crowd of merry-makers received me with impertinent remarks and jokes.
Five by the station clock! I profited by the time at my disposal to arrange things a little, so that my uncle might the more easily fall into the snare which he had spread with his own hands when he set me the task of repairing part of the machine of which I had a duplicate.