At last she had it all in heaps.

There were the twenty-five mille he had left with her, and the seventy-five mille she had borrowed from him.

Then towards her own losses there was another mille, and a matter of five hundred francs in gold.

And all this success, her wonderful recovery, had been done so easily! It was just because she had had the pluck to go on, because she had followed her vein.

She looked at the money and she walked to the window.