His Eminence is giving a party ?" "Are you weary of life, Monsieur ?" asked the captain.

"What are you doing here?
I had supposed you to be a man of sense, and on the way to Spain.

And my word of honor, you stick your head down the lion's mouth! Follow your nose, follow your nose; it is none of my affair." And the gruff old captain passed on down the stairs.
The Chevalier stared after him in bewilderment.

Spain?
.

.