Since nobody's seen you, be quick and run up and hide in my room and wait for me." Georges sprang at her and threw his arms round her neck.

It was true after all! She loved him a little! So they would put the lamp out as they did yesterday and be in the dark till daytime! Then as the front-door bell sounded he quietly slipped away.

Upstairs in the bedroom he at once took off his shoes so as not to make any noise and straightway crouched down behind a curtain and waited soberly.
Nana welcomed Count Muffat, who, though still shaken with passion, was now somewhat embarrassed.

She had pledged her word to him and would even have liked to keep it since he struck her as a serious, practicable lover.

But truly, who could have foreseen all that happened yesterday?
There was the voyage and the house she had never set eyes on before and the arrival of the drenched little lover! How sweet it had all seemed to her, and how delightful it would be to continue in it! So much the worse for the gentleman! For three months past she had been keeping him dangling after her while she affected conventionality in order the further to inflame him.