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Marguerite showed the ready and energetic decision of a woman who wishes to bring a scene to a close.
"Good-bye!" Her face had assumed a yellowish cast, her pupils had become dull and clouded like the glass of a lantern when the light dies out.
"Good-bye!" She must go to her patient.
She went away without looking at him, and Desnoyers instinctively went in the opposite direction.

As he became more self-controlled and turned to look at her again, he saw her moving on and giving her arm to the blind man, without once turning her head.
He now felt convinced that he should never see her again, and became oppressed by an almost suffocating agony.

And could two beings, who had formerly considered the universe concentrated in their persons, thus easily be separated forever?
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