You will help me in it indeed, but that is not all your duty.
Your part will be to mix in the life of Seville, and to watch those whom I bid you watch, to drop a word here and a hint there, and in a hundred ways that I shall show you to draw grist to my mill--and to your own.
You must be brilliant and witty, or sad and learned, as I wish; you must make the most of your person and your talents, for these go far with my customers.

To the hidalgo you must talk of arms, to the lady, of love; but you must never commit yourself beyond redemption.

And above all, young man'-- and here his manner changed and his face grew stern and almost fierce--'you must never violate my confidence or the confidence of my clients.

On this point I will be quite open within you, and I pray you for your own sake to believe what I say, however much you may mistrust the rest.

If you break faith with me, YOU DIE.