He stopped Aubertin in the middle of his walk, and said in a faint voice of the deepest dejection,-- "Doctor, the time is come that I must once more thank you for all your goodness to me, and bid you all farewell." "What, going before your strength is re-established ?" said the doctor politely, but not warmly.
"I am out of all danger, thanks to your skill." "Colonel, at another time I should insist upon your staying a day or two longer; but now I think it would be unadvisable to press you to stay.
Ah, colonel, you came to a happy house, but you leave a sad one.

Poor Madame Raynal!" "Sir!" "You saw the baroness draw her aside." "Y-yes." "By this time she knows it." "In Heaven's name what do you mean ?" asked Camille.
"I forgot; you are not aware of the calamity that has fallen upon our beloved Josephine; on the darling of the house." Camille turned cold with vague apprehension.

But he contrived to stammer out, "No; tell me! for Heaven's sake tell me." The doctor thus pressed revealed all in a very few words.

"My poor friend," said he solemnly, "her husband--is dead.".