'Except that, had I known this before, M.de Berault I should have thought longer before I surrendered to you.' The Lieutenant laughed, and I felt my cheek burn; but I affected to see nothing, and turned to him again.

'Now, Monsieur,' I said, 'are you satisfied ?' 'No,' he answered?
'I am not! You two may have rehearsed this pretty scene a dozen times.

The word, it seems to me, is--Quick march, back to quarters.' At length I found myself driven to play my last card; much against my will.
'Not so,' I said.

'I have my commission.' 'Produce it!' he replied incredulously.
'Do you think that I carry it with me ?' I cried in scorn.

'Do you think that when I came here, alone, and not with fifty dragoons at my back, I carried the Cardinal's seal in my pocket for the first lackey to find.
But you shall have it.