Has it been suggested to you by any of them that you should watch us--my uncle and me ?" "On my honor, no!" I answered earnestly.
She was evidently puzzled.

Little by little the animosity seemed to have died away from her face.

She looked at the sleeping man thoughtfully, and then once more at me.
"Tell me," she said,--"do not think, please, that I am inquisitive, but I should like to believe that you are not one of those whom we need fear,--is Louis indeed an ordinary acquaintance of yours ?" "He is scarcely that," I answered.

"He is simply the _maitre d'hotel_ at a restaurant I frequent.

I had never in my life seen him before, except in his restaurant.