"I thought that madame did not go to her father's now?"
"Oh! because in an outburst of anger he told me not to come again. As if he remembered that! Besides, it isn't my father that I want to see, but Adolphine."
The next morning, at eleven o'clock, Madame Monléard was ushered into the presence of her sister, who uttered a cry of surprise when she saw her.
"What! is it you, Fanny?"
"To be sure; Madeleine told me that father had just gone out; I am glad of that."
"Oh! never fear; his anger has passed away. It never lasts long with him, you know."
"But I am the one who is angry now."
"You! with whom?"
"With everybody. You pretend to be surprised; but you must know what has happened?"
"No. What can have happened to irritate you so?"