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Updated: June 23, 2025
She begged him to go to Cayrol's, and gain some information, without giving him further details, and she waited, walking up and down the room to calm the fever of her mind. On leaving the house in the Rue Taitbout, Serge felt bewildered, not daring to go home, and unable to decide on any plan; yet feeling that it was necessary to fix on something without delay, he reached the club.
And shaking hands with the Prince, Herzog went to the cashier to get the scrip and deposit the receipt. There was a party at Cayrol's. In the drawing-rooms of the mansion in the Rue Taitbout everything was resplendent with lights, and there was quite a profusion of flowers.
Was it the happy influence of Madame Desvarennes that changed everything she touched into gold, or were Cayrol's capacities really extraordinary? The results were there and that was sufficient. They did not trouble themselves over and above that. The banker had naturally become one of the intimates of Madame Desvarennes's house. For a long time he saw Jeanne without particularly noticing her.
Cayrol's carriage rolled rapidly along the broad avenue of the park shadowed by tall trees, the lanterns throwing, as they passed, their quivering light on the thickets. The rumbling carriages took the last guests to the railway station. It was past midnight. A nightingale began singing his song of love to the stars. Madame Desvarennes mechanically stopped to listen.
Madame Desvarennes placed her hand on the shoulder of the banker, and looking seriously at him, said: "You would not have forgiven me if I had allowed you to render him this service." A vague uneasiness filled Cayrol's heart, a shadow seemed to pass before his eyes, and in a troubled voice he said to the mistress: "Why so?" "Because he would have repaid you badly."
After Cayrol's arrival, not knowing what to do, he had gone to the Universal Credit Company, and there, to his astonishment, had found the offices closed.
Cayrol's face brightened. "You are right," he said. "Yes, as ever, you are right. You must excuse rile, I do not know how to talk to women. Rebuke her and put a little sense in her head. But don't leave her; she is fit to commit any folly." Madame Desvarennes smiled. "Be easy," she answered. And making a sign to Cayrol, who was leaving the room, she returned to Jeanne.
"Well! what is it?" she asked, with crushing haughtiness. "Are you frightened at having gained your cause so quickly?" And as Serge did not speak: "Come," added she, "you will have a handsome fee; Micheline's dower will be worth the trouble you have had." They heard Cayrol's hurried steps ascending the stairs.
"Well! what is it?" she asked, with crushing haughtiness. "Are you frightened at having gained your cause so quickly?" And as Serge did not speak: "Come," added she, "you will have a handsome fee; Micheline's dower will be worth the trouble you have had." They heard Cayrol's hurried steps ascending the stairs.
Cayrol had taken refuge there with Jeanne, and Mademoiselle Susanne Herzog. This young girl felt uncomfortable at being a third party with the newly-married couple, and welcomed the arrival of the Prince and Micheline with pleasure. Her father had left her for a moment in Cayrol's care; but she had not seen him for more than an hour.
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