Chapter

 1  2,1|         valets eyed the unknown visitor, plainly considering him
 2  5,2| stranger presented himself. The visitor held a long conference with
 3  6,1|         would the smooth-spoken visitor have declared that he knew
 4  6,2|      peculiar expression on her visitor's face. He was standing
 5  7,1|         of relief as he saw his visitor depart. He wished to be
 6  8,5|      order was useless, for the visitor was already on the threshold.
 7  9,5|      and dazzled by his strange visitor's beauty. ~Rather more than
 8 11,4|        arm-chair, and asked his visitor to sit down. "Your letter
 9 13,4|         of this courtesy on his visitor's part, and so, as he continued
10 13,6|       that he suspected who his visitor really was. But such was
11 14,2|     this hour of the night, the visitor could only be M. Costard
12 14,2|        But he was mistaken. The visitor was neither of these gentlemen,
13 14,5|         servants remembered the visitor perfectly; they now knew
14 17,4|    quickly slipping between the visitor and the door, he said: "
15 18,1|      Marguerite did so, and her visitor who, as a woman, was delighted
16 20,1|       entrance bell announced a visitor, he trembled, turned pale,