Pascale! Her heart skipped and did double beat.
Pascale, whom she had liked and felt she could trust.
Pascale who, next to Adele, whom she had thought would be the closest to her amongst all she had met there, and whom she thought would be a great help in her revenge and adventure. He had been her first hope and might now be her last, of uncovering and Robinson ‘s duplicity.
Pascale, the one person to whom she might ultimately have confided in. But. . . Pascale, who had believed Robinson ‘s lie. . . who had rejected her of his own accord; who had given her no chance to explain how was he going to receive her now?
At sight of him she had started forward impulsively, to be checked by doubt before she neared him. But already she was in his view; though he was smiling when he looked up an
