That I shall be the honored guest at your table.

That I shall be left in no dubious social standing here.

That I may see your daughter, learn to know her, and you may prudently arrange the story I am to tell her later.

As Madame Berthe Louison, a tourist of wealth, an art dilettante, a French woman of rank and position, your social guaranty will keep the pack of human wolves away from my retreat here.

I have my papers to prove all this." "When must this be?
Before I receive the jewels?
Before my title to the baronetcy is perfected?
What guaranty have I ?" he replied.
"My honor alone! I pledge you now that I will not make myself known to Nadine until you have received the jewels and the Crown has obtained its long sequestered property.