“Daniel, they have calumniated me, and you have avenged me!” she cried, rising, and opening her arms to him.

In the profound amazement caused by these words, the roots of which were utterly unknown to him, Daniel allowed his hand to be taken between her beautiful hands, as the princess kissed him sacredly on the forehead.

“But,” he said, “how could you know—­”

“Oh! illustrious ninny! do you not see that I love you fondly?”

Since that day nothing has been said of the Princess de Cadignan, nor of d’Arthez.  The princess has inherited some fortune from her mother and she spends all her summers in a villa on the lake of Geneva, where the great writer joins her.  She returns to Paris for a few months in winter.  D’Arthez is never seen except in the Chamber.  His writings are becoming exceedingly rare.  Is this a conclusion?  Yes, for people of sense; no, for persons who want to know everything.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Ajuda-Pinto, Marquis Miguel d’
  Father Goriot
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  Beatrix

Arthez, Daniel d’
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Letters of Two Brides
  The Member for Arcis

Bianchon, Horace
  Father Goriot
  The Atheist’s Mass
  Cesar Birotteau
  The Commission in Lunacy
  Lost Illusions
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  The Government Clerks
  Pierrette
  A Study of Woman
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  Honorine
  The Seamy Side of History
  The Magic Skin
  A Second Home
  A Prince of Bohemia
  Letters of Two Brides
  The Muse of the Department
  The Imaginary Mistress
  The Middle Classes
  Cousin Betty
  The Country Parson
In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following: 
  Another Study of Woman
  La Grande Breteche

Blondet, Emile
  Jealousies of a Country Town
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  Modeste Mignon
  Another Study of Woman
  A Daughter of Eve
  The Firm of Nucingen
  The Peasantry

Blondet, Virginie
  Jealousies of a Country Town
  The Peasantry
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Another Study of Woman
  The Member for Arcis
  A Daughter of Eve

Cadignan, Prince de
  Modeste Mignon

Chrestien, Michel
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Cinq-Cygne, Laurence, Comtesse (afterwards Marquise de)
  The Gondreville Mystery
  The Seamy Side of History
  The Member for Arcis

Dudley, Lady Arabella
  The Lily of the Valley
  The Ball at Sceaux
  The Magic Skin
   A Daughter of Eve
  Letters of Two Brides