Mademoiselle, after a moment's blank pause, laughed ripplingly.

"Now where is he going in such a hurry ?" "To see M.de La Tour d'Azyr as well as your uncle, I should say." "But he cannot.

They cannot see him.

Did I not say that they are very closely engaged?
You don't ask me why, Andre." There was an arch mysteriousness about her, a latent something that may have been elation or amusement, or perhaps both.

Andre-Louis could not determine it.
"Since obviously you are all eagerness to tell, why should I ask ?" quoth he.
"If you are caustic I shall not tell you even if you ask.