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`` You have played your role , baroness , like an artiste of consummate talent , and to-morrow I shall have the honor to cancel the debt in your favor . '' `` Now , then , give me your arm , marquis , and conduct me to the dancing-room , and you , worthy guests , follow us , '' said . Marie , leading the way . The merry music even was not sufficient to dissipate the awkward oppression , and by midnight the guests had taken leave , and Marie stood under the chandelier , pale and rigid , opposite her husband . He had summoned courage to bewail the terrible scene , weeping and mourning over her cruelty and his shame . Marie , with chilling indifference , regarded him without one visible trace of pity . `` You realized what you were doing when you imposed the scorn of this marriage upon me , '' she said .