For a moment she was tongue-tied.

Then-- "Have we not had enough of seeking and being sought ?" she cried, more bitterly than befitted the occasion.

"Why should we hunt him?
I am not timid, and he did me no harm.

I beg, Madame, that you will do me the favour of being silent on the matter." "Oh, if you insist?
But what a pother--" "I did not see him, and he did not see me," Madame de Tavannes answered vehemently.

"I fail, therefore, to understand why we should harass him, whoever he be.