there, already very drunk." She pronounced the word HE with a

look of horror in her wide-open eyes. "I wished to go away, but

he would not let me." She stopped, as if having lost the thread,

"Well, what then? I remained a bit, and went home again."

At this moment the public prosecutor raised himself a little,

leaning on one elbow in an awkward manner.

"You would like to put a question?" said the president, and

having received an answer in the affirmative, he made a gesture