So, she approached another kind of idea: Lucien followed some intrigue in Saint-Nazaire, he was perhaps in love there and he had a mistress; his coldness, his indifference, were explained in this way. The thought that she could be deceived made her furious; she did not think that she had, through her own conduct, given her husband the right to be unfaithful. No, her passion did not allow her to admit the pain of retaliation. If he had loved her again, perhaps she would have allowed him a betrayal, but he didn't love her, and she loved him!
She was not a woman who remained in doubt for a long time, who was jealous of an imaginary being. If she was mistaken, she wanted to know her rival.
However, she spent a week studying Lucien, trying to find out what was going on in his mind. He seemed
