"What have you to do in such a great hurry?"

"I must go to the inspector of police."

"Why do you not get one of your friends to see after the matter?
It is likely to make you worse than you are now."

"It is my only chance of getting better. I must see her. Ever
since I heard of her death, especially since I saw her grave, I
have not been able to sleep. I can not realize that this woman,
so young and so beautiful when I left her, is really dead. I must
convince myself of it. I must see what God has done with a being
that I have loved so much, and perhaps the horror of the sight
will cure me of my despair. Will you accompany me, if it won't be
troubling you too much?"

"What did her sister say about it?"

"Nothing. She seemed greatly surprised that a stranger wanted to
buy a plot of ground and give Marguerite a new grave, and she
immediately signed the authorization that I asked her for."

"Believe me, it would be better to wait until you are quite
well."

"Have no fear; I shall be quite composed. Besides, I should
simply go out of my mind if I were not to carry out a resolution
which I have set myself to carry out. I swear to you that I shall
never be myself again until I have seen Marguerite. It is perhaps