“I must, however, confess that you received the great news which he
brought rather coldly.”
“The very fact of the news being so very grave,” replied the advocate,
“made me wish for time to consider. If Cocoleu pretends to be imbecile,
or, at least, exaggerates his incapacity, then we have a confirmation
of what M. de Boiscoran last night told Miss Dionysia. It would be the
proof of an odious trap of a long-premeditated vengeance. Here is the
turning-point of the affair evidently.”