"You forget, madame, that I have your promise not to leave the château without informing me of your purpose."
"Very well, monsieur, I now inform you that I propose to leave Chantilly instantly."
"And do you imagine that I will allow it?"
"What!" cried the viscountess; "you will detain me by force?"
"Madame, I know not what I may do, but I do know that it is impossible for me to part from you."
"Then I am your prisoner?"
"You are a woman whom I have already lost twice, and whom I do not propose to lose a third time."
"Aha! violence?"
"Yes, madame, violence," replied Canolles, "if there is no other way to keep you."
"Oh! what extreme felicity," cried Madame de Cambes, "to detain by force a woman who shrieks, who demands her freedom, who does not love you, who detests you!"