"So you are found at last?" he said. "We were anxious about you."
"Who are we?" rejoined the uncle in a surly tone.
"Marcel and I."
"You are very good! Did you think I had gone to the Indies, pray, that you are so surprised to see me?"
"I confess that I hardly expected to see you here."
"And I, on the contrary, was sure of meeting you here!"
And without explaining that reply, which to Julien was absolutely enigmatical, he turned his back on him.
"Well, well! his mind is really unhinged," thought Julien.
And he passed on, but not without turning two or three times to see if the amateur in gardens went in or out, and if it were not the case that he had come there unconsciously; but every time that he looked he saw Monsieur Antoine standing motionless at the foot of the staircase, and
