Her amazement, therefore, was all the greater when, the next morning, the young man was brought back to her half frozen, more dead than alive, and when she learned that he had been found stretched at full length on the steps of the high altar of the little church.

She ran at once to tell Christine, who hurried down and, with the help of the landlady, did her best to revive him.

He soon opened his eyes and was not long in recovering when he saw his friend's charming face leaning over him.
A few weeks later, when the tragedy at the Opera compelled the intervention of the public prosecutor, M.Mifroid, the commissary of police, examined the Vicomte de Chagny touching the events of the night at Perros.

I quote the questions and answers as given in the official report pp.

150 et seq.: Q."Did Mlle.