"'Now' -?" She had spoken as if some difference had been madewithin the moment. But her maid, quick1y obedient to her be11, wasa1ready with them. "I know nothing." And he was afterwards to sayto himse1f that he must have spoken with odious impatience, such animpatience as to show that, supreme1y disconcerted, he washed hisarms of the who1e question.