“Yes, perfectly.”
“No one observes us?—no one can hear us?”
“Be satisfied; nobody.”
“Is M. du Vallon arrived?”
“Yes.”
“And you have received my letter?”
“Yes. The affair is serious, apparently, since it necessitates your attendance in Paris, at a moment when your presence was so urgent elsewhere.”
“You are right, it could not be more serious.”
“Thank you! thank you! What is it about? But, for God’s sake! before anything else, take time to breathe, dear friend. You are so pale, you frighten me.”
“I am really in great pain. But, for Heaven’s sake, think nothing about me. Did M. du Vallon tell you nothing, when he delivered the letter to you?”