You can't fail to please her; you have only to make yourself agreeable.

But you will know how to do it--you will conduct yourself like an angel, I am sure." "Captivate Des Rameures and his niece--this is your advice!" Early next morning Camors left the Chateau de Campvallon, armed with these imperfect instructions; and, further, with a letter from the General to Des Rameures.
He went in a hired carriage to his own domain of Reuilly, which lay ten leagues off.

While making this transit he reflected that the path of ambition was not one of roses; and that it was hard for him, at the outset of his enterprise, to by compelled to encounter two faces likely to be as disquieting as those of Des Rameures and his niece..