30/47 I will go back and live there until Tuesday, and come away only at the last hour, so that no one will ever suspect where--I don't care how humbly I live when we are abroad. I can have lodgings somewhere in the same town, or near, and you will come--' His hair disordered, his eyes wild, quivering throughout with excitement, he stood as if pondering possibilities. 'Is the expense more than you--' 'No, no, no! How can you think of such a thing? I shall be a perfect stranger in Bordeaux. I don't even speak the language at all well. |