The cure glanced up at him now as they passed, and a half-sad smile crossed his face.

Gaston caught it as it passed.

The cure read his case truly enough and gently enough too.

In some wise hour he would plead with Gaston for the woman's soul and his own.
Gaston did not find Andree at the chateau.

She had gone out alone towards the sea, Annette said, by a route at the rear of the village.