“I am not afraid of them.” Then she added in a gentler tone,--
“Besides, won’t you always be near me, to advise me, and to protect me
in case of danger?”
“I? Don’t you think they will try to part us soon enough?”
“No, Daniel, I know very well that the house will no longer be open to
you.”
“Well?”
The poor girl blushed up to the roots of her hair, and, turning her.
eyes away from him to avoid his looks, she said,--
“Since they force us to do so, I must needs do a thing a girl, properly
speaking, ought not to do. We will meet secretly. I shall have to stoop
to win over one of my waiting-women, who may be discreet and obliging
enough to aid me, and, through her, I will write to you, and receive
your letters.”
But this arrangement did not relieve Daniel from his terrible
apprehensions. There was a question which constantly rose to his lips,
and which still he did not dare to utter. At last, making a great
effort, he asked,--
“And then?”