He saw that it was best to be frank with this keen old man.
"Baron Dangloss, I don't know just what you are driving at, but I'll set you straight so far as I'm concerned.

I never saw that girl until the day before yesterday.

I never spoke to her until to-day." "She smiled on you quite familiarly from her window casement _yesterday_," said Dangloss coolly.
"She laughed at me, to be perfectly candid.

But what's all this about?
Who is she?
What's the game?
I don't mind confessing that I have a feeling she is not what she claims to be, but that's as far as I've got." Dangloss studied the young man's face for a moment and then came to a sudden decision.

He leaned forward and smiled sourly.
"Take my advice: do not play with fire," he said enigmatically.
"You--you mean she's a dangerous person?
I can't believe that, Baron." "She has dangerous friends out in the world.