“What prevents me, since he wishes to kill me, from killing him first?”
“Oh, mon Dieu! nothing; I thought of that myself.”
“It is only natural.”
“Very natural.”
“Only, instead of killing him with my own hands, I will leave it to others.”
“That is to say, you will hire assassins?”
“Ma foi! yes, like M. de Guise for St. Megrim.”
“It will cost you dear.”
“I will give three thousand crowns.”
“You will only get six men for that, when they know who they have to deal with.”