She saw at once that I knew more than I had a mind to tell.

She turned a face to me, as white as a cheese, and looked at me with such eyes, that I might well have been frightened if I had not--I may say it without boasting--been born in Carpentras.

At first she tried it with kindness, and then she threatened to turn me out of the house that minute, and then she wanted to bribe me by all sorts of promises--ma foi! it was not a very easy moment, but I stood firm, and madame threw herself back on the bed, and the tap was turned on full again.

Would you believe it, that that Anne had the face to say to madame she had better look in the bureau to see if her money and jewels were safe.

'Silence, wretch!' cried Madame la Comtesse, so that the windows rattled, and gave the person a look that made her double up like a penknife.