It's fate.

And it's my punishment." "Still, even if Godensky and Girard are friends," Ivor tried to console me, "it isn't likely that the Count has talked to the detective about you and the affair of the treaty." "He may have gone to him for help in finding out things he couldn't find out himself." "Hardly, I should say, until there'd been time for him to fear failure.
No, the chances are that Girard will have no inner knowledge of the matter I've put into his hands; and if he's a man of honour, he's bound to do the best he can for me, as his employer.

Have you seen du Laurier ?" "Yes.

At the theatre.

Nothing bad had happened to him yet; but that brute Godensky has made dreadful mischief between us.