"There is a train back which reaches Aix at nine o'clock," she said, "so we need not spoil Servettaz' holiday." "His parents will be expecting him," Helene Vauquier added.
Accordingly Servettaz left for Chambery by the 1.50 train from Aix; and later on in the afternoon Mme.

Dauvray and Celia went by train to Annecy.

In the one woman's mind was the queer longing that "she" should appear and speak to-night; in the girl's there was a wish passionate as a cry.

"This shall be the last time," she said to herself again and again--"the very last." Meanwhile, Helene Vauquier, it must be held, burnt carefully Adele Taces letter.

She was left in the Villa Rose with the charwoman to keep her company.