"What plan ?" Suddenly he struck his thigh.

"By George, so that is it, eh, Madame?
So that is why we are so comfortably lodged here?
I am in the way, and you bait the hook with a countess! Since the purse will not lead the way, the heart, eh?
Certainly I shall tell my lord the Englishman all about his hostess when I return from the ride.

Decidedly you are clever.

O, how careless! Not even in cipher, so that he who reads may run.

And who is B. ?--Beauvais! Something told me that this man had a hand in the affair.