"He does, does he?
And who made you his messenger ?" "He met me in the street--just now." "He knows you, then ?" "He knows I live here," Louis muttered.
"He pays us a vast amount of attention," Claude replied with polite irony.

"Nevertheless"-- he turned again to the fire--"I cannot pleasure him," he continued curtly, "this time." "But he wants to see you," Gentilis persisted desperately.

It was plain that he was on pins and needles.

"At his house.

Cannot you believe me ?" in a querulous tone.