She did not answer the loving words which her father addressed to her, but simply glanced at him with her large distressful eyes, and then again turned them upon the marble statue which looked so white amid the radiance of the tapers.

And whilst Pierre stood waiting to take her back to the hospital, M.de Guersaint devoutly fell upon his knees.

At first he prayed with passionate ardour for his daughter's cure, and then he solicited, on his own behalf, the favour of finding some wealthy person who would provide him with the million francs that he needed for his studies on aerial navigation.
V.BERNADETTE'S TRIALS ABOUT eleven o'clock that night, leaving M.de Guersaint in his room at the Hotel of the Apparitions, it occurred to Pierre to return for a moment to the Hospital of Our Lady of Dolours before going to bed himself.

He had left Marie in such a despairing state, so fiercely silent, that he was full of anxiety about her.

And when he had asked for Madame de Jonquiere at the door of the Sainte-Honorine Ward he became yet more anxious, for the news was by no means good.