The Seigneur was doing a friendly thing; and, in any case, she could have no quarrel with him.
There was danger to the man she loved, however, and every faculty was alive.
"That's right.

He shall have his chance to evade the Abbe if he wishes," answered M.Rossignol.
There was silence for a moment, in which she was scarcely conscious of his presence; then he leaned over the counter towards her, and spoke in a low voice.
"What I said the other day I meant.

I do not change my mind--I am too old for that.

Yet I'm young enough to know that you may change yours." "I cannot change, Monsieur," she said tremblingly.
"But you will change.

I knew your mother well, I know how anxious she was for your future.