"You think, then, that they suspect us ?" he said.
"How should they not?
Tell me that.

How should they not?
Rochette's task must be to lull those suspicions to sleep.

In the meantime I----" "Yes ?" "Will be at work," Basterga replied.

He laughed drily as if it pleased him to baulk the other's curiosity.

Softly he added under his breath, "Captique dolis, lacrimisque coactis, Quos neque Tydides, nec Larrissaeus Achilles Non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae! D'Albigny nodded.