Do not go back there to-night, and wake them all up, and start a nine days' wonder of scandal.

Stay where you are, Duke, quietly, until we recover our Salome.

When we do, you can both leave for Paris.
All the world will know nothing of this distressing affair, which, if it were to come to their knowledge, would be exaggerated, perverted, turned and twisted out of all its original shape, into some horrid story of scandal.

Remember now, how few people know anything about it--only you, I, the detective necessarily taken into your confidence, and the servants, for whose discretion I can answer.

Remain quietly here, therefore, that all gossip may be stopped." The duke resumed his seat, but did not immediately answer.
"Do you not think my counsel good ?" inquired the lady.
"Very good.