Colonel Mariage, as you know, had begged me to give him and his friends a room where they could talk undisturbed." "And you gave him the little red drawing-room didn't you ?" "Yes.

I gave them the little red drawing-room, which is reached from this boudoir.

I was in the niche and heard all." "So it is really an actual conspiracy ?" asked her father, with a happy smile.
"Really an actual conspiracy," she repeated gravely, "and unless you warn the Emperor Napoleon, unless you save him, he will be a lost man within a week, even if that murderer's dagger should not strike him." "That is splendid, that is marvelous," cried her father.

"Leonore, this time we shall really attain our goal.

We shall be rich.