"The Marquis d'Harville."
"You alarm me!"
"He gave a breakfast this morning to several of his friends. Everything was going off well; he, above all, had never been more gay, when a fatal imprudence—"
"Go on, go on!"
"In playing with a pistol which he did not know was loaded—"
"He has wounded himself?"
"Worse!"
"Well?"
"Something very terrible!"
"What do you say?"