"Well, what has he done? I should like to be edified."
"First, he kept his oath to D'Argenson."
"I doubt it not, he is faithful to his word; and but for me would have kept his word also with Pontcalec, Talhouet, etc."
"Yes, but one was more difficult than the other. He had sworn not to mention his sentence to any one, and he did not speak of it to his mistress."
"Nor to you?"
"He spoke of it to me, because I told him that I knew it. He forbade me to ask anything of the regent, desiring, he said, but one favor."
"And that one?"
"To marry Helene, in order to leave her a fortune and a name."
"Good; he wants to leave your daughter a fortune and a name; he is polite, at least."
"Do you forget that this is a secret from him?"