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notwithstanding the severe vigilance of his valet.
The stranger had sat down opposite him at the
writing-table and began to dictate to him what
he was about to write. He was just going to
ring for François to have him turned out when he
saw to his horror that the stranger was himself.
A couple of days later I was standing by his
side in the coulisses of the Grand Opera
watching Mademoiselle Yvonne dancing a pas de
quatre, smiling on the sly at her lover whose
flaming eyes never left her. We had late supper
in the elegant little flat Maupassant had just
taken for her. She had washed off the rouge
from her face, I was shocked to see how pale and
worn she looked compared with when I had first
seen her in the yacht. She told me she always
took ether when she was dancing, there was
nothing like ether for a pick-me-up, all her comrades
took ether, even Monsieur le Directeur du Corps
de Ballet himself—as a matter of fact I saw him
die of it many years later in his villa in Capri.
Maupassant complained that she was getting too
thin and that she was keeping him awake at
night by her incessant coughing. At his request
I examined her the next morning, there was
serious trouble at the top of one of the lungs. I
told Maupassant she must have complete rest, I
advised him to send her for the winter to Menton.
Maupassant said he was quite willing to do all
that could be done for her, besides he did not
fancy thin women. She refused point blank to
go, she said she would rather die than leave him.
She gave me lots of trouble during the winter and
also lots of new patients. One after another her
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