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Ten days had passed since Victor Fargeau's conversation with Adelaide de Conde in Vienna. He had adhered to the decision that he had come to so suddenly under the spell of her wonderful eyes.
He had no family ties now. His mother had died several years before. His two sisters had married Frenchmen, and migrated with their husbands into Normandy. The estate in Alsace, which should have been his own patrimony, was lost, and the German Jew, Weinthal, held not only that but the honour of his family, the good name of his dead father, in his hands. So he had decided to cut himself adrift from his native land until it had become once more a part of France.