"Hush!" said Milady; "let us not, even here, speak thus of him. All my misfortunes arise from my having said nearly what you have said before a woman whom I thought my friend, and who betrayed me. Are you also the victim of a treachery?"
"No," said the novice, "but of my devotion—of a devotion to a woman I loved, for whom I would have laid down my life, for whom I would give it still."
"And who has abandoned you—is that it?"