“But, monsieur, you know then — ”
“I know that you have been abducted, madame.”
“And by whom? Do you know him? Oh, if you know him, tell me!”
“By a man of from forty to forty-five years, with black hair, a dark complexion, and a scar on his left temple.”
“That is he, that is he; but his name?”
“Ah, his name? I do not know that.”
“And did my husband know I had been carried off?”
“He was informed of it by a letter, written to him by the abductor himself.”
“And does he suspect,” said Mme. Bonacieux, with some embarrassment,