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Presently he turned round.
"Gaspare has gone."
"It would have been better if he had never come!"
"Hermione," he said, "has it come to this, that I must defend Gaspare
to you?"
"I think Gaspare might have kept with Vere, ought to have kept with
Vere."
Artois felt a burning desire to make Hermione understand the Sicilian,
but he only said, gently:
"Some day, perhaps, you will know Gaspare's character better, you will
understand all this."
"I can't understand it now. But--oh, if Vere-- No, that's impossible,
impossible!"
She spoke with intense vehemence.
"Some things cannot happen," she exclaimed, with a force that seemed
to be commanding destiny.
Artois said nothing. And his apparent calm seemed to punish her,
almost as if he struck her with a whip.
"Why don't you speak?" she said.
She felt almost confused by his silence.
He went out again to the balcony, leaned on the railing and looked
over. She felt that he was listening with his whole nature for the
sound of wheels.


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