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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Take care that no accident happens to you." "Accidents are usually unforeseen," he said, smiling. "The carriage is ready, my Lord Marquis," said the servant. "Madame, if I should fall a victim to the boar " he continued, with a suppliant air. "What does this mean?" inquired Mme. de Wimphen.
Lord Grenville did not dare to look at Julie, and Mme. de Wimphen was left to sustain a conversation to which no one listened. Julie glanced at her friend with touching gratefulness in her eyes to thank her for coming to her aid. By this time the lovers had quelled emotion into silence, and could preserve the limits laid down by duty and convention.
He looked at the guest, Mme. de Wimphen, and half-pettishly, half-mischievously added, "I am starting off for several days' sport with the Master of the Hounds. For a whole week, at any rate, you will be a widow in good earnest; just what you wish for, I suppose. Guillaume," he said to the servant who entered, "tell them to put the horses in."
Mme. de Wimphen was the friend to whom Julie had begun the letter upon her marriage. The glances exchanged by the two women said plainly that in her Julie had found an intimate friend, an indulgent and invaluable confidante. Mme. de Wimphen's marriage had been a very happy one.
Mme. de Wimphen, watching her friend, saw strong feeling wrought to the highest pitch, ecstasy of the most dangerous kind painted on Julie's face in swift changing white and red. At length Julie flung the sheet into the fire. "It burns like fire," she said. "Oh! my heart beats till I cannot breathe." She rose to her feet and walked up and down. Her eyes were blazing.
"But your poor husband is really very good-natured," cried Louisa de Wimphen, when the two women were alone together. "He loves you." "Oh! not another syllable after that last word. The name I bear makes me shudder " "Yes, but Victor obeys you implicitly," said Louisa. "His obedience is founded in part upon the great esteem which I have inspired in him.
"You will be my witness before heaven now that I need a firman to obtain this little grace of her," said the Marquis, addressing Mme. de Wimphen. "This is how this wife of mine understands love. She has brought me to this pass, by what trickery I am at a loss to know.... A pleasant time to you!" and he went.
But M. de Wimphen was announced, and as he came in the two friends exchanged glances. Both felt the difficulties of this fresh complication. Julie went to her, ostensibly to wrap her up in her shawl. "I will be brave," she said, in a low voice. "He came here in the face of all the world, so what have I to fear?
"Keep my secret, Louisa," said Julie, after a moment's silence. Just as she spoke the footman brought in a letter for the Marquise. "Ah!" she cried, and her face grew white. "I need not ask from whom it comes," said Mme. de Wimphen, but the Marquise was reading the letter, and heeded nothing else.
Louisa, you do not know! He is dying. He wants to say good-bye to me. He knows that my husband has gone away for several days. He will be here in a moment. Oh! I shall die: I am lost. Listen, Louisa, stay with me! I am afraid!" "But my husband knows that I have been dining with you; he is sure to come for me," said Mme. de Wimphen. "Well, then, before you go I will send him away.
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