I am ready to answer to any question. Let _him_ demand me.'
'Very good, Mademoiselle.'
'_Madame_, if you please.'
'I forgot--_Madame_--yes, I shall apprise him of everything.'
Madame turned upon her a peaked and malign look, smiling askance with a
stealthy scorn.
'For myself, I have nothing to conceal. I have always done my duty. What
fine scene about nothing absolutely--what charming remedies for a sick
person! Ma foi! how much oblige I am for these so amiable attentions!'
'So far as I can see, Mademoiselle--Madame, I mean--you don't stand very
much in need of remedies. Your ear and head don't seem to trouble you just
now. I fancy these pains may now be dismissed.'
Lady Knollys was now speaking French.
'Mi ladi has diverted my attention for a moment, but that does not prevent
that I suffer frightfully. I am, of course, only poor governess, and such
people perhaps ought not to have pain--at least to show when they suffer.
It is permitted us to die, but not to be sick.'
'Come, Maud, my dear, let us leave the invalid to her repose and to nature.
I don't think she needs my chloroform and opium at present.
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