"
"You can very easily help me if you will. Le Gardeur must know this
secret. He must have seen the woman--but he is angry with me, for--
for--slighting him--as he thinks--but he was wrong. I could not
avow to him my jealousy in this matter. He told me just enough to
madden me, and angrily refused to tell the rest when he saw me so
infatuated--he called it--over other people's love affairs. Oh,
Amelie, Le Gardeur will tell you all if you ask him!"
"And I repeat it to you, Angelique, I cannot question Le Gardeur on
such a hateful topic. At any rate I need time to reflect, and will
pray to be guided right."
"Oh, pray not at all! If you pray you will never aid me! I know
you will say the end is wicked and the means dishonorable. But find
out I will--and speedily! It will only be the price of another
dance with the Chevalier de Pean, to discover all I want. What
fools men are when they believe we love them for their sakes and
not for our own!"
Amelie, pitying the wild humors, as she regarded them, of her old
school companion, took her arm to walk to and fro in the bastion,
but was not sorry to see her aunt and the Bishop and Father de Berey
approaching.
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