Meanwhile the servant who was waiting with the lady, said to her--
"I hear my master speaking on the stairway. I will go to him."
But the lady stopped him and said--
"Do not trouble yourself; he will come soon enough."
A little while afterwards the servant, hearing his master say, "I am
dying, may God receive my soul!" wished to go to his assistance, but the
lady again withheld him, saying--
"Do not trouble yourself; my husband is only chastising him for his
follies. We will go and see what it is."
Then, leaning over the balustrade at the top of the stairway, she asked
her husband--
"Well, is it done?"
"Come and see," he replied. "I have now avenged you on the man who put
you to such shame."
So saying, he drove a dagger that he was holding ten or twelve times
into the belly of a man whom, alive, he would not have dared to assail.
When the murder had been accomplished, and the two servants of the dead
man had fled to carry the tidings to the unhappy father, St. Aignan
bethought himself that the matter could not be kept secret.
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