He amused me at the beginning, when he told me his sly intrigue, without naming the person, as they all do at first.

He amused me still more by the way he managed to name her without violating that which people in society call honor.

And to think that the women believe in that honor and that discretion! And yet it was the surest means of entering Steno's, and approaching Alba....

I believe I am about to pay for my Roman flirtation.

If Gorka is a Pole, I am from Lorraine, and the heir of the Castellans will only make me do what I agree to, nothing more." In such an ill-humor and with such a resolution, Julien reached the door of his house.