Tantaine had resumed all his airs of humility, and took off his hat to the footmen as he descended the steps.

"Yes," muttered he, as he walked along, "the idea was a happy one.

Andre knows that he is watched, and will be careful; and now that M.de Mussidan is aware that his sweet, pure daughter has had a lover, he will be only too happy to accept the Marquis de Croisenois as his son-in-law." Tantaine believed that Sabine was more culpable than she really had been, for the idea of pure and honorable love had never entered his brain..