"But do I understand you to say that that was the time of the scandal you have touched upon ?" "The scandal burst three days after that masque.

It came as a surprise to most people.

As for me--from what Bardelys had told me--I expected nothing less." "Pardon, Chevalier, but how old do you happen to be ?" "A curious question that," said he, knitting his brows.
"Perhaps.

But will you not answer it ?" "I am twenty-one," said he.

"What of it ?" "You are twenty, mon cousin," Roxalanne corrected him.
He looked at her a second with an injured air.
"Why, true--twenty! That is so," he acquiesced; and again, "what of it ?" he demanded.
"What of it, monsieur ?" I echoed.