'Do you think that you make things better by such speeches as those ?' 'Oh!' she cried and I heard her teeth click together.

'Would you have me fawn on you ?' 'Perhaps not,' I answered.

'Still you make one mistake.' 'What is it ?' she panted.
'You forget that I am to be feared as well as--loathed, Mademoiselle! Ay, Mademoiselle, to be feared!' I continued grimly.

'Do you think that I do not know why you are here in this guise?
Do you think that I do not know for whom that pitcher of broth was intended?
Or who will now have to fast to-night?
I tell you I know all these things.

Your house was full of soldiers; your servants were watched and could not leave.