“Indeed!”
“Yes.”
“And you did not find me there?”
“No, but I found Mouston.”
“Is he well?”
“Peste!”
“Well, but Mouston did not tell you I was here.”
“Why should he not Have I, perchance, deserved to lose his confidence?”
“No, but he did not know it.”
“Well; that is a reason at least that does not offend my self-love.”