"An additional reason for suspecting you."
"I tell you that I must see her," said Benvenuto, beginning to get warm.
"And I tell you that you shall not see her," retorted the servant.
"Is Madame d'Etampes visible?"
"No more than Mademoiselle Colombe."
"Not even to me, her jeweller?"
"Less to you than to any other person."
"Do you mean that orders have been given not to admit me?"
"Just so," replied the servant; "you have put your finger on the spot."
"Do you know that I am a strange man, my friend," said Benvenuto, with the terrible laugh which ordinarily preceded his outbursts of wrath; "and that the place I am forbidden to enter is the place I am accustomed to enter?"