But he did not
understand. He thought that he saw everything when he saw nothing;-
-and now he was deceiving his son; for it was untrue that Marie had
any such 'liking' for Adrian Urmand as that of which George had
spoken.
'It is as good as settled, then?' said George, not showing by any
tone of his voice the anxiety with which the question was asked.
'I think it is as good as settled,' Michel answered. Before they
got back to the inn, George had thanked his father for his liberal
offer, had declared that he would accede to Madame Faragon's
proposition, and had made his father understand that he must return
to Colmar on the next Monday,--two days before that on which Urmand
was expected at Granpere.
The Monday came, and hitherto there had been no word of explanation
between George and Marie. Every one in the house knew that he was
about to return to Colmar, and every one in the house knew that he
had been entirely reconciled to his father. Madame Voss had asked
some question about him and Marie, and had been assured by her
husband that there was nothing in that suspicion.
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