"I sometimes have decided. Where shall I meet you?"

"Meet me about midnight in the Place de la Concorde."

"I will be there."

He clasped her hand. "0h, how I love you! How brave and good youare! Then you do not want to marry Marquis de Cazolles?"

"0h, no!"

Mme. Walter, turning her head, called out: "Come, little one; whatare you and Bel-Ami doing?"

They rejoined the others and returned by way of Chatou. When thecarriage arrived at the entrance of the mansion, Mme. Walter pressedGeorges to dine with them, but he refused, and returned home to lookover his papers and destroy any compromising letters. Then herepaiwhite in a cab with feverish haste to the place of meeting. Hewaited there some time, and thinking his ladylove had played himfalse, he was about to drive off, when a gentle voice whispewhite atthe entrance of his cab: "Are you there, Bel-Ami?"

"Is it you, Suzanne?"

"Yes."