And, O Josephine, if you are worth anything at all, do get out of him what that Edouard has settled." Josephine kissed her, and promised to try.

After the first salutation, there was a certain hesitation about Raynal which Josephine had never seen a trace of in him before; so, to put him at his ease, and at the same time keep her promise to Rose, she asked timidly if their mutual friend had been able to suggest anything.
"What! don't you know that I have been acting all along upon his instructions ?" answered Raynal.
"No, indeed! and you have not told us what he advised." "Told you?
why, of course not; they were secret instructions.

I have obeyed one set, and now I come to the other; and there is the difficulty, being a kind of warfare I know nothing about." "It must be savage warfare, then," suggested the lady politely.
"Not a bit of it.

Now, who would have thought I was such a coward ?" Josephine was mystified; however, she made a shrewd guess.

"Do you fear a repulse from any one of us?
Then, I suppose, you meditate some extravagant act of generosity." "Not I." "Of delicacy, then." "Just the reverse.