Chapter 22
D'HEROUVILLE THREATENS AND MADAME FINDS A DROLL BOOK The next morning the vicomte went to the hospital to inquire into the state of the Comte d'Hrouville's health. He found that gentleman walking back and forth in the ward. There was little of the invalid about him save for the pallor on his cheeks, which provided proof that his blood was not yet of its accustomed thickness. At the sight of the vicomte he neither frowned nor smiled; the expression on his face remained unchanged, but he ceased his pacing. The two men contemplated each other, and the tableau lasted for a minute. "Well, Monsieur?" said D'Hrouville, calmly. The vicomte was genuinely surprised at the strides toward completeness which D'Hrouville had made. An ordinary man would still have been either in bed or in a chair. But
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