The forest is of course watched; therefore take as many precautions as we formerly did for our young masters.

Don't say a word to Malin; don't speak to him; and put on one of our masks which you will find on the steps which lead down to the cave.
Unless you wish to compromise our heads you must be absolutely silent about this letter and the secret I have now confided to you.

Don't say a word to Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne, who might tell of it.

Don't fear for me.

We are certain that the matter will turn out well; when the time comes Malin himself will save us.