Besides, I knew that I was treading on slippery ground: that it behoved me to be careful.
'I will do it,' I said after a moment's reflection.

'He will play me no tricks, I suppose?
A letter of--' 'MON DIEU, no! He will understand,' Cocheforet answered eagerly.

'You will not repent it.

Let us be going.' 'Well, but my horse ?' I said, somewhat taken aback by this extreme haste.

'How am I to--' 'We shall overtake it,' he assured me.