“The same.”
“I fancied they had called upon you.”
“You are quite right.”
“Did they come on behalf of M. de Chateau Renaud?”
“They are his seconds.”
“Ah! so he has taken this matter seriously it seems.”
“He could scarcely do otherwise,” replied Louis.
“So they came to——.”
“To request me to name two friends who would confer with them; I thought of you.”