Is that true?
He spoke to Mademoiselle Hafner about it, and he thought he would mitigate your animosity toward her by telling you she was an enthusiast and wished to buy it.

Is that true as well?
And you, wretched man, had only one thought, to deprive that poor little thing of the trifle.
Is that true?
We spent the evening before last together at Countess Steno's; she talked to me of nothing but her desire to have the book on which the illustrious soldier, the great believer, had prayed.

She told me of all her heroic resolutions.

Later she went to buy it.

But the shop was closed; I noticed it on passing, and you certainly went there, too....