"'Ah!' exclaimed I, 'if you were likely to see me.'
"'I have seen you,' said she, laughingly; 'what would have been the good of sight to me, if I had not looked upon you? Ah! vain fellow, who dares set limits to a woman's curiosity, whose eyes are suddenly opened to the light?'
"'But it is impossible, Eulalie, for you promised me.'
"'I did not promise you any thing, dearest, for when you asked me to make you this promise, I had already seen you.'
"'You had seen me, and yet you continued to come to me; that is well; but whom did you see first?'
"'M. Maunoir, my father, Julie, then this great world, with its trees and mountains, the sky and the sun.'
"'And whom have you seen since?'
"'Gabriel Payot, old Balmat, the good Terraz, the giant Cachat, and Marguerite.'
"'And nobody else?'
"'Nobody.'