Meanwhile then I'll say a word to Mrs.Osmond." "Gardez-vous-en bien!" And Madame Merle was on her feet.

"Don't set her going, or you'll spoil everything." Rosier gazed into his hat; he wondered whether his hostess HAD been after all the right person to come to.

"I don't think I understand you.

I'm an old friend of Mrs.Osmond, and I think she would like me to succeed." "Be an old friend as much as you like; the more old friends she has the better, for she doesn't get on very well with some of her new.

But don't for the present try to make her take up the cudgels for you.