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"Bah!" He withdrew his hand, and heaved himself up. There was
disgust on his face. "He did not refuse!" he mocked her; and then
with passion: "Had you acted as I advised you, he would have
consented to anything that you asked, and what is more he would
have provided anything that you asked - anything that lay within
his means, and they are inexhaustible. You have changed a
certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities - God of
God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved
on them."
Had she known of the interview taking place at that moment at the
Chateau de Sautron she would have laughed less confidently at her
father's gloomy forebodings. But she was destined never to know,
which indeed was the cruellest punishment of all. She was to
attribute all the evil that of a sudden overwhelmed her, the
shattering of all the future hopes she had founded upon the Marquis
and the sudden disintegration of the Binet Troupe, to the wicked
interference of that villain Scaramouche.
She had this much justification that possibly, without the warning
from M.


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