'I can understand that.

Yet I want to speak to her.' 'Very well, you can speak in my presence,' he answered rudely.

'If that be all, let us ride on and join her.' And he made a movement as if to do so.
'That will not do, M.de Cocheforet,' I said firmly, stopping him with my hand.

'Let me beg you to be more complaisant.

It is a small thing I ask, a very small thing; but I swear to you that if Mademoiselle does not grant it, she will repent it all her life.' He looked at me, his face growing darker and darker.
'Fine words,' he said, with a sneer.