I felt the fascination, felt it almost in my blood, as I looked around.
"You could not specify, I suppose ?" I said to Louis.
"How could monsieur ask it ?" he replied, a little reproachfully.

"You will be one of the only people who do not belong who have been admitted here, and you will notice," he continued, "that I have asked for no pledge--I rely simply upon the honor of monsieur." I nodded.
"There is crime and crime, Louis," said I."I have never been able to believe myself that it is the same thing to rob the widow and the millionaire.

I know that I must not ask you any questions," I continued, "but the girl with Delora,--the man whom you call Delora,--she, at least, is innocent of any knowledge of these things ?" Louis smiled.
"Monsieur is susceptible," he remarked.

"I cannot answer that question.

Mademoiselle is a stranger.