"
I took a step forward, a hot answer on my lips, when from the doorway at my
back came Yvonne's sweet voice.
"Eug?ne! You here?"
"As you see, Sister. Though had you delayed your coming 't is probable you
would no longer have found me, for your father welcomes me with oaths and
threatens me with his grooms."
She cast a reproachful glance upon the Chevalier, 'neath which the anger
seemed to die out of him; then she went forward with hands outstretched and
a sad smile upon her lips.
"Yvonne!" The Chevalier's voice rang out sharp and sudden.
She stopped.
"I forbid you to approach that man!"
For a moment she appeared to hesitate; then, leisurely pursuing her way,
she set her hands upon her brother's shoulders and embraced him.
The Chevalier swore through set teeth; Genevi?ve trembled, Andrea looked
askance, and I laughed softly at the Chevalier's discomfiture. Eug?ne
flung his hat and cloak into a corner and strode across the room to where
his father stood.
"And now, Monsieur, since I have travelled all the way from Paris to save
my house from a step that will bring it into the contempt of all France, I
shall not go until you have heard me.
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