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No one could know except the Juge d'Instruction and Ivor Dundas himself. "Only two men were present at that scene, and they will never tell what went on," I said aloud. "Three men were present," Godensky answered. "Besides the two of whom you think, there was another: a lawyer who speaks English.
Raoul would have been ruined, his heart broken, and I but there are no words to express what I would have suffered, what I may yet have to suffer. Godensky would be praised for his cleverness, as well as securing a satisfactory revenge on me for refusing him. The only thing which rejoices me now is the thought of his blank disappointment when he gets the news from the Commissary of Police."
That frightened me, though I might have guessed it was only a trick. Indeed, I did guess, but I couldn't be sure, so I saw him. I didn't want you to know I tell you that frankly, Raoul. Because I'd told you not to come home with me, I hoped you wouldn't find out that I meant to let Count Godensky drive part of the way back with me and Marianne.
Godensky was obliged to take his leave, which he did abruptly, but to all appearance with a good grace; and when he was gone Marianne ushered in a girl a tall, beautiful girl in a grey tailor dress built by an artist. For such time as it might have taken us to count twelve, we looked at each other; and as we looked, a little clock on the mantel softly chimed the quarter hour.
You must tell me what you're thinking of, dear. For my own sake, if not yours." "Well if you will know. But, remember, darling, I'm going to put it out of my mind. I'll ask you no questions, I'll only tell you the thing itself. As I said, I didn't come here directly after seeing Godensky get into your carriage. I wandered about like a madman and I thought of the Seine."
He was too handsome, too young, too attractive in every way. If Raoul had been jealous of Count Godensky, whom he knew I had refused, what would he feel towards Ivor Dundas, a stranger whose name I had never mentioned, though he was received at my house after midnight?
"It is you I want for mine," he answered. "When am I to have you? Don't keep me waiting long, my darling. I'm nothing without you." "I don't want to keep you waiting," I told him. And indeed I longed to be his wife his, in spite of Godensky; his, till death us should part.
Had the treaty been missing, and Raoul disgraced, Godensky would no doubt have vowed to me if I'd lived to hear his vows that he had had no hand in the discovery. Fear of the terrible man who had so nearly beaten me in the game made me quiver even now. "You see," I went on, "I can think of nothing but you, and my love for you.
Fumbling a little at the lock, always a little difficult if one were in a hurry, I asked myself what if, as Marianne had suggested, it were not Ivor Dundas, but someone else Raoul, perhaps or the man who had been in her mind: Godensky. But it was Ivor. "What news?" I questioned him, my voice sounding queer and far away in my own ears.
But it would have been better for me to die and be out of my troubles for ever, than to let myself faint and show Godensky that he had struck home. "Be quiet. Be cool. Be brave now, if never again," I said to myself. And my voice sounded perfectly natural as I exclaimed: "Oh, the 'document' again. The one you spoke about when we first met to-night. You rouse my curiosity.
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