CHAPTER XVIII 

ROCHESTER'S ULTIMATUM 

The Park into which they turned was almost deserted. Pauline stopped the carriage and got out. 

"Come and walk with me a little way," she said to Rochester. "We will go and sit amongst that wilderness of empty chairs. I want to talk. I must talk to someone. We shall be quite alone there." 

Rochester walked by her side, puzzled. He had never seen her like this. 

"I suppose I am hysterical," she said, clutching at his arm for a moment as they passed along the walk. "There, even that does me good. It's good to feel--oh, I don't know what I'm talking about!" she exclaimed. 

"Where have you been this afternoon?" he asked gravely. 

"To hear that awful man Naudheim," she answered. "Henry, I wish I'd never been. I wish to Heaven you'd never asked Bertrand Saton to Beauleys." 

Rochester's face grew darker. 

"I wish I'd wrung the fellow's neck the first day I saw him," he declared, bitterly. "But after all, Pauline, you don't take this sort of person seriously?" 

"I wish I didn't," she answered. 

"He's an infernal charlatan," Rochester declared. "I'm convinced of it, and I mean to expose him." 

She shook her head. 

"You can call him what you like," she said, "but there is Naudheim behind him. There is no one in Europe who would dare to call Naudheim a charlatan." 

"He is a wonderful man, but he is mad," Rochester said. 

"No, he is not mad," she said. "It is we who are mad, to listen a little, to think a little, to play a little with the thoughts he gives us."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the name of the person that was next to Pauline?
2. The person that was besides Pauline went by what name?
3. 
Q2:
1. Where did Pauline and Rochester go and sit?
2. Pauline and Rochester went to sit in what place?
3. 
Q3:
1. Was something stopped by Pauline?
2. Did Pauline stop something?
3. 
Q4:
1. What object did Pauline stop?
2. Pauline stopped what object?
3. 
Q5:
1. 
2. 
3. 
