He saw the smile, and a strange misapprehension came over him.

"She is smiling at my suspicions.

Yes, she will tell me directly what she told me before; that there is no foundation for my suspicions, that it's absurd.

" At that moment, when the revelation of everything was hanging over him, there was nothing he expected so much as that she would answer mockingly as before that his suspicions were absurd and utterly groundless.