"I do not think so.

Hardly!" "Yes, worse," he replied, shaking his head.

"Do you remember lying under the curtain in the box-bed at Mirepoix's ?" "Of course I do! Do you think I shall ever forget it ?" "And Madame d'O coming in ?" "With the Coadjutor ?" I said with a shudder.

"Yes." "No, the second time," he answered, "when she came back alone.

It was pretty dark, you remember, and Madame de Pavannes was at the window, and her sister did not see her ?" "Well, well, I remember," I said impatiently.