I throw my secret into your hands.

You will not betray me?
You warned me once, at Montreal.

Will you not shield me once again ?" She nodded, smiling now in an amused way.

"Monsieur always takes the most extraordinary times to visit me! Monsieur asks always the most extraordinary things! Monsieur does always the most extraordinary acts! He takes me to call upon a gentleman in a night robe! He calls upon me himself, of an evening, in dinner dress of hides and beads--" "'Tis the best I have, Madam!" I colored, but her eye had not criticism, though her speech had mockery.
"This is the costume of your American savages," she said.

"I find it among the most beautiful I have ever seen.