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What's the matter, old man?" I asked. "You are looking very down. cast. How are your friends getting on?"
"Apart from you," he said, "I have no friends."
"I hope that Monsieur Darzac -"
"No doubt."
"And Mademoiselle Stangerson - How is she?"
"Better - much better."
"Then you ought not to be sad."
"I am sad," he said, "because I am thinking of the perfume of the lady in black -"
"The perfume of the lady in black! - I have heard you often refer to it. Tell me why it troubles you."
"Perhaps - some day; some day," said Rouletabille.
And he heaved a profound sigh. swore her to secrecy, so that her father should not know she had been away. A month later, Mademoiselle Stangerson returned to her father, repentant, her heart dead within her, hoping only one thing: that she would never again see her husband, the horrible Ballmeyer. A report was spread, a few weeks later, that he was dead, and she now determined to atone for her disobedience by a life of labour and devotion for her father. And she kept her word.
All this she had confessed to Robert Darzac, and, believing Ballmeyer dead, had given herself to the joy of a union with him. But fate had resuscitated Jean Roussel - the Ballmeyer of her youth. He