"This is my affair." The cashier looked alternately at the two ladies, but he could discover nothing on their impenetrable faces.
"Go, leave us--Have the kindness to wait a few moments that the people in the bank may not connect you with this negotiation," said Madame de Nucingen to the countess.
"I must ask you to add to all your other kindness that of keeping this matter secret," said Madame de Vandenesse.
"Most assuredly, since it is for charity," replied the baroness, smiling.

"I will send your carriage round to the garden gate, so that no one will see you leave the house." "You have the thoughtful grace of a person who has suffered," said the countess.
"I do not know if I have grace," said the baroness; "but I have suffered much.

I hope that your anxieties cost less than mine." When a man has laid a plot like that du Tillet was scheming against Nathan, he confides it to no man.

Nucingen knew something of it, but his wife knew nothing.

The baroness, however, aware that Raoul was embarrassed, was not the dupe of the two sisters; she guessed into whose hands that money was to go, and she was delighted to oblige the countess; moreover, she felt a deep compassion for all such embarrassments.