"What can I do?" she said, clasping her hands.
"Then you will go?"
"If my father goes."
"So you are determined to go?"
Cosette seized Marius's hand and pressed it as sole reply.
"Very well," said Marius; "in that case I shall go elsewhere."
Cosette felt the meaning of this remark even more than she comprehended it; she turned so pale that her face became white in the darkness, and stammered,—
"What do you mean?"
Marius looked at her, then slowly raised his eyes to heaven, and replied,—
"Nothing."