"You are looking very down.
cast. How are your friends getting on ?" "Apart from you," he said, "I have no friends." "I hope that Monsieur Darzac--" "No doubt." "And Mademoiselle Stangerson--How is she ?" "Better--much better." "Then you ought not to be sad." "I am sad," he said, "because I am thinking of the perfume of the lady in black--" "The perfume of the lady in black!--I have heard you often refer to it. Tell me why it troubles you." "Perhaps--some day; some day," said Rouletabille. And he heaved a profound sigh..