Camille at last began to comprehend that Josephine had decided there should be no private interviews between her and him.

Thus, not only the shadow of the absent Raynal stood between them, but her mother and sister in person, and worst of all, her own will.

He called her a cold-blooded fiend in his rage.

Then the thought of all her tenderness and goodness came to rebuke him.

But even in rebuking it maddened him.