At the first word you dared to utter, at the first freedom to which I had to reply, I called for help." "Yes, yes, that is true.

And any other love but mine would have sunk beneath this ordeal; but my love came out from it more ardent and more eternal.

You believed that you would fly from me by returning to Paris; you believed that I would not dare to quit the treasure over which my master had charged me to watch.

What to me were all the treasures in the world, or all the kings of the earth! Eight days after, I was back again, madame.

That time you had nothing to say to me; I had risked my life and favor to see you but for a second.