"'Hush,' she breathed, 'there is no Mme. Valgrand now. I am a companion.' And the unhappy woman explained that to earn her living she had to accept an inferior position as reader and housekeeper to a rich lady."
"And to whom did Mme. Valgrand go as companion?"
"To an Englishwoman, I believe, but the name escapes me."
"Mme. Valgrand wished, you say, that her identity should remain unknown? Do you know what name she took?"
"Yes—Mme. Raymond."
Some moments later Fandor left the actor and was hastening down the Rue Lepic as fast as his legs would take him.