"As things might be, if you were the man you were yesterday, willing to throw up everything for me ?" "Like that--if you put it so," he answered.
She walked slowly up to him, looking as though she would plunge a knife into his heart.

"I wish Jean Jacques had opened the gates," she said.
"It would have saved the hangman trouble." Then suddenly, and with a cry, she raised her hand and struck him full in the face with her fist.

At that instant came a tap at the door of the other room, and the Clerk of the Court appeared.

He saw the blow, and drew back with an exclamation.
Carmen turned to him.

"Farewell has been said, M'sieu' Fille," she remarked in a voice sombre with rage and despair, and she went to the door leading to the street.
Masson had winced at the blow, but he remained silent.