Perhaps I can learn all in a day.

I, alone, my dear sister, am the guilty person.
All lovers play their game, and it is not every woman who is able, unassisted, to see life as it is." Madame du Tillet returned home comforted.

Felix de Vandenesse drew forty thousand francs from the Bank of France, and went direct to Madame de Nucingen He found her at home, thanked her for the confidence she had placed in his wife, and returned the money, explaining that the countess had obtained this mysterious loan for her charities, which were so profuse that he was trying to put a limit to them.
"Give me no explanations, monsieur, since Madame de Vandenesse has told you all," said the Baronne de Nucingen.
"She knows the truth," thought Vandenesse.
Madame de Nucingen returned to him Marie's letter of guarantee, and sent to the bank for the four notes.

Vandenesse, during the short time that these arrangements kept him waiting, watched the baroness with the eye of a statesman, and he thought the moment propitious for further negotiation.
"We live in an age, madame, when nothing is sure," he said.

"Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity.