Thousand devils woman! Will you have it said in Paris that you were found locked in a room with me?
What will your uncle--your virtuous, prudish, incorruptible uncle--say when he learns of it?
If he does not demand a heavy price from you for so dishonouring him, he is not the man I deem him.

Now be sensible, child, and open that door while there is yet time, and before anybody discovers us in this most compromising situation." He struck the tone most likely to win him obedience, and that he had judged astutely her face showed him.

In the place of the anger that had distorted it there came now into that countenance a look of surprise and fear.

She saw herself baffled at every point.

She had threatened him with Duplay--the only man available--and he had shown her how futile it must prove to summon him.