I know who I am, and that says everything.
It will never be requisite to communicate it to others." "I am sure of it," he said kindly.

"And now, my dear Leonore, let us say nothing about our private affairs and pass on to business." "Yes, let us do so," she answered quietly.

"I am waiting for your questions." "Then first: what did Count Andreossy want, when he begged for an interview so urgently yesterday evening ?" "You were listening ?" she asked calmly.
"I heard it.

I would gladly have listened to your conversation, but you were malicious enough to grant him the interview in the little corner drawing-room, which has but a single entrance.

So it was impossible to enter it unnoticed.