“Come,” said he, pouring out for her a glass of cyprus wine, “as you have signed your contract with me, you will not be unfriendly any more, countess.”
“Oh no!”
“You will receive me here sometimes without repugnance?”
“I shall never be so ungrateful as to forget whose house this really is.”
“Not mine.”
“Oh yes, monseigneur.”
“Do not contradict me, I advise you, or I shall begin to impose conditions.”
“You take care on your part——”
“Of what?”
“Why, I am at home here, you know, and if your conditions are unreasonable, I shall call my servants——”