As I said, I didn't come here directly after seeing Godensky get into your carriage.

I wandered about like a madman--and I thought of the Seine." "Oh--you must indeed have been mad!" "I was.

But that something saved me--the something that drove me to find you.

I walked here, by roundabout ways, but always coming nearer and nearer, as if being drawn into a whirlpool.

At last, I was in this street, on the side opposite your house.