I speak in French, that the good Sarah beside us may not comprehend.

You understand the language, I know." He knew her, then! And yet she utterly failed to recognize that voice.
"In the first place, what does all this mean?
Why this deception--this abduction?
Who am I?
Where are you being taken?
When are you to be restored to your friends?
This is what you would ask, is it not?
Very well; now to answer you.

What does this mean?
Why, it means that you have made an enemy, by your atrocious flirting, of one whom you cruelly and shamefully jilted, who has vowed vengeance, and who knows how to keep that vow.

Why this deception--this abduction?
Well, without deception it was impossible to get you away, and we know just enough about you to serve our purpose.

Miriam never sent that note; but Miriam exists.