“No; but they are only complaisant when I give them leave.”
“Then I commend myself to your intercession, for they would not even take a cup of chocolate from me.”
“They were perfectly right not to accept your chocolate: but I see you do not know the ways of Turin. Do you find yourself comfortable in your present lodging?”
“Quite so.”
“Are you perfectly free to do what you like?”
“I think so.”
“Can you give supper to anyone you like in your own rooms? I am certain you can’t.”
“I have not had the opportunity of trying the experiment so far, but I believe . . . .”
“Don’t flatter yourself by believing anything; that house is full of the spies of the police.”
“Then you think that I could not give you and two or three of your girls a little supper?”