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But Madame Cagliostra again looked strangely frightened.
"No, no!" she said hastily. "I repeat that the cards told me nothing.
The cards were a blank. I could see nothing in them. But, of course, we
do not only tell fortunes by cards"--she spoke very quickly and rather
confusedly. "There is such a thing as a premonition."
She waited a moment, and then, in a business-like tone, added, "And now
I leave the question of the fee to the generosity of these ladies!"
Madame Wolsky smiled a little grimly, and pulled out a twenty-franc
piece.
The woman bowed, and murmured her thanks.
When they were out again into the roughly paved little street, Anna
suddenly began to laugh.
"Now, isn't that a typical Frenchwoman? She really did feel ill, she
really saw nothing in my cards, and, being an honest woman, she did not
feel that she could ask us to pay! Then, when we had gone away, leaving
only five francs, her thrift got the better of her honesty; she felt she
had thrown away ten good francs! She therefore called us back, and gave
us what she took to be very excellent advice.


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