14/20 Reunited!" "Oh, it was in vain she told me you would not come! I hoped in silence. Oh, I have done well! How happy I am!" At this word SHE, Athos, who had seated himself quietly, started up. She who out of friendship for me wished to take me from my persecutors. She who, mistaking you for the cardinal's Guards, has just fled away." "Your companion!" cried d'Artagnan, becoming more pale than the white veil of his mistress. "Of what companion are you speaking, dear Constance ?" "Of her whose carriage was at the gate; of a woman who calls herself your friend; of a woman to whom you have told everything." "Her name, her name!" cried d'Artagnan. |