“Have I done wrong? But I know I haven’t!”
“Wrong! How could you do that?”
He seemed to make an effort, to conquer something within him.
“It’s I who am wrong, Domini. The truth is, I can’t bear our happiness to be intruded upon even for a night. I want to be alone with you. This life of ours in the desert has made me desperately selfish. I want to be alone, quite alone, with you.”
“It’s that! How glad I am!”
She laid her cheek against his arm.
“Then,” he said, “that other signal?”
“Monsieur de Trevignac gave it.”
Androvsky took his arm from hers abruptly.
“Monsieur de Trevignac!” he said. “Monsieur de Trevignac?”