When she wakes she can sup." And he made some steps toward the door.
"But, my lieutenant," said a soldier, less stoical than his chief, and who had approached Milady, "this woman is not asleep." "What, not asleep!" said Felton; "what is she doing, then ?" "She has fainted.

Her face is very pale, and I have listened in vain; I do not hear her breathe." "You are right," said Felton, after having looked at Milady from the spot on which he stood without moving a step toward her.

"Go and tell Lord de Winter that his prisoner has fainted--for this event not having been foreseen, I don't know what to do." The soldier went out to obey the orders of his officer.

Felton sat down upon an armchair which happened to be near the door, and waited without speaking a word, without making a gesture.

Milady possessed that great art, so much studied by women, of looking through her long eyelashes without appearing to open the lids.