'At any rate, you will promise not to believe it,' said Michel.

And he did succeed in obtaining from M.Urmand a sort of promise that he would not regard the words of the letter as in truth expressing Marie's real resolution.

'Girls, you know, are such queer cattle,' said Michel.

'They think about all manner of things, and then they don't know what they are thinking.' 'But who is the other man ?' demanded Adrian, as soon as he had finished the letter.

Any one judging from his countenance when he asked the question would have imagined that in spite of his promise he believed every word that had been written to him.