she would have slapped her brow. She apostrophized Théodule:—
“Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?”
“No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me.”
“So you are going to travel together?”
“He in the imperial, I in the coupé.”
“Where does this diligence run?”
“To Andelys.”
“Then that is where Marius is going?”
“Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius’ plan of travel.”