"As the devil," she answered. "No, I want to do the talking. You sit down and listen."
"Nothing will please me better," Bruslart returned, smiling. "I have been forced to go into hiding, and have lost touch with events."
"And I have been in prison."
"In prison! You!"
"Strange, isn't it? I dare say the story will interest you, but there are other things to talk of first. What has forced you into hiding?"
"Circumstances and Raymond Latour," he answered.
"And why should you keep your hiding-place a secret from me?"
"I will explain. It is rather a long story, and—"
"And I do not want to hear it," she said. "I know. It is not a pretty story. To save one woman you sacrifice another, and in the end are false to both."
"What nonsense have you been told, Pauline?"