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Updated: June 21, 2025
The most intimate friends of the family were ignorant of its most painful sores. In presence of his friends, M. Favoral dissembled, speaking in a mild voice, and assuming a kindly smile. Should she suddenly reveal the truth?
Dazzled by the mere enumeration of those fabulous sums, "I should not be a bit surprised," said the others, "to see Favoral double and treble his fortune. What a famous match his daughter will be!" Alas! never had Mlle.
"I know it," exclaimed the old merchant. "I know it as well as you do yourself. And so I have come to beg a little favor of you, which will cost you nothing. When you see Favoral, remember me to him, explain my situation to him, and try to make him give me back my money. He is a hard one to fetch, that's a fact.
Fortin, he took the commissary outside the room, on the landing; and there, in a few words, he explained to him that this Zelie was precisely the same woman whom they had found in the Rue du Cirque, in that sumptuous mansion where Vincent Favoral, under the simple name of Vincent, had been living, according to the neighbors, in such a princely style. The commissary of police was astounded.
Favoral observed these people whom her husband called his friends, and whom she saw herself for the first time. M. de Thaller, who could not then have been much over thirty, was already a man without any particular age. Cold, stiff, aping evidently the English style, he expressed himself in brief sentences, and with a strong foreign accent. Nothing to surprise on his countenance.
Hence the energy of her refusal. But hence also, the imprudent vivacity which had enlightened Mme. Favoral, and which made her say: "You hide something from me, Gilberte?" Never had the young girl been so cruelly embarrassed as she was at this moment by this sudden and unforeseen perspicacity. Would she confide to her mother?
He cut the thread that bound it; and almost at once: "I knew I was right," he said. And holding out a paper to Mme. Favoral: "Read, madame, if you please." It was a bill. She read thus: "Sold to M. Favoral an India Cashmere, fr. 8,500. Received payment, FORBE & Towler." "Is it for you, madame," asked the commissary, "that this magnificent shawl was bought?"
Favoral, under penalty of the law, to appear the next day, at one o'clock precisely, before the examining judge, Barban d'Avranchel, at his office in the Palace of Justice. The poor woman came near fainting. "What can this judge want with me? It ought to be forbidden to call a wife to testify against her husband," she said. "M. de Tregars will tell you what to answer, mamma," said Mlle. Gilberte.
M. Favoral thought himself sure to win; for did he not have the key of the cash, and is not the key of the cash the most formidable weapon in an age where every thing begins and ends with money? Nevertheless, he was filled with irritating anxieties.
Favoral could not doubt when she saw her husband's fabulous liberality continue without flinching for a number of days. Ten times of an afternoon he would come home to tell his wife the name of some dish that had been mentioned before him, or to consult her on the subject of some exotic viand he had just noticed in some shop-window.
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