He is a good man." When Jacques had gone she shut herself up in her room.

She was gathering all her life into the compass of an hour.

She felt but one thing: the ruin of her happiness and Gaston's.
"He is a good man," she said over and over to herself.

And the other--Ian Belward?
All the barbarian in her was alive.
The next morning she started for Paris, saying to Jacques and Annette that she would return in four days..