"I only wish Mme.

Rossignol to be satisfied." "And I shall be," said Adele, "if--" She leaned forward in anxiety.

She had come to the real necessity of Helene Vauquier's plan.

"If we abandon as quite laughable the cupboard door and the string across it; if, in a word, mademoiselle consents that we tie her hand and foot and fasten her securely in a chair.

Such restraints are usual in the experiments of which I have read.