"It is an easy matter to tell me what I should do.

Tell me, rather, how it should be done." His blindness stirred her anger, and her anger whelmed her hesitation.
"Were I in your place, Marius, I should find a way," said she, in a voice utterly expressionless, her eyes averted ever from his own.
He scanned her curiously.

Her agitation was plain to him, and it puzzled him, as did the downcast glance of eyes usually so bold and insolent in their gaze.

Then he pondered her tone, so laden with expression by its very expressionlessness, and suddenly a flood of light broke upon his mind, revealing very clearly and hideously her meaning.

He caught his breath with a sudden gasp and blenched a little.