“Goodbye, Philippe.”

“Have you quite made up your mind? You are going tonight? With her?”

No reply.

“Surely you will not do anything so foolish? I shall know how to prevent you!”

“Goodbye, Philippe,” said the viscount again and left the room.

This scene was described to the examining-magistrate by the count himself, who did not see Raoul again until that evening, at the Opera, a few minutes before Christine’s disappearance.