Ah, dear heaven, the man who made him would have a splendid notion had he kept him in his own hands, for nobody asked for him; he was in everybody's way, and he would certainly not have much happiness in life! Meanwhile Zoe described the catastrophe.
"Madame was seized with colic toward four o'clock.

When she didn't come back out of the dressing room I went in and found her lying stretched on the floor in a faint.

Yes, monsieur, on the floor in a pool of blood, as though she had been murdered.

Then I understood, you see.

I was furious; Madame might quite well have confided her trouble to me.