Good-bye-ee!" "Good-bye-ee!" she echoed after him.

And he closed the door on her life.
In front of the Hotel de Ville he met Arnold, returning from the club, and the two men walked off together.

In a moment of impulse he related the whole story to him.

"Now," he said, "what do you make of all that ?" Arnold was very moved.

It was not his way to say much, but he walked on silently for a long time.