He has made sacrifices--any looking at his face can see that.

It was not in France that he looked for happiness, but elsewhere.

He was not heart-whole--I who have seen him with the most beautiful women in France paying court to him know that.

But this sacrifice, also, he made for the sake of France.

Or perhaps some woman of whom we know nothing stepped back and bade him go forward alone, for the sake of his own greatness--who can tell ?" Again no one answered him.