“Well,” she answered, “now that you put it in that manner I may as well admit that your suggestion is correct.”
“And what is the object of his sudden visit to Paris?”
“I cannot make out,” she replied in a more confidential tone. “As I tell you, de Wolkenstein introduced him, but, as m’sieur knows, I am very quick to detect a face that I have once seen, and I recognised him in an instant.”
“Sibyl told me that he had a long chat with her, and she described him as a most charming fellow.”
“Ah, no doubt! I suspected him and watched. It was evident that he came to my salon in order to meet her.”
“To meet Sibyl! Why?”
“That I cannot tell.”
“But I think, Baronne, we may be both agreed upon one point.”
“And that is?”
“That the man who now calls himself Rodolphe Wolf is here in Paris with some secret motive.”