And what misfortunes are in store for us now! Oh, to run away!" "Let us run away at once," Raoul insisted, once more.
She hesitated.

He thought that she was going to say yes...

Then her bright pupils became dimmed and she said: "No! To-morrow!" And she left him hurriedly, still wringing and rubbing her fingers, as though she hoped to bring the ring back like that.
Raoul went home, greatly perturbed at all that he had heard.
[Illustration: They Sat Like that for a Moment in Silence] "If I don't save her from the hands of that humbug," he said, aloud, as he went to bed, "she is lost.

But I shall save her." He put out his lamp and felt a need to insult Erik in the dark.

Thrice over, he shouted: "Humbug! ...