“So be it; but since all this will be at nighttime, it is possible that when you ask for her, the sister will tell you that no one can be seen at such an hour.”
“Then I shall lose.”
“You are quite sure, then, that if she be in the convent she will come down?”
“That’s my business. I repeat, if you don’t speak to her, I shall hold myself to have lost a hundred sequins, or a thousand if you like.”
“One can’t speak plainer than that, my dear fellow, and I thank you beforehand.”
“The only thing I ask you is to come sharp to time; and not to come too late for a convent.”
“Will an hour after sunset suit you?”
“Admirably.”
“I shall also make it my business to compel my masked mistress to stop where she is, even though it be M. M. herself.”
“Some won’t have long to wait, if you will take her to a casino which I myself possess at Muran, and where I secretly keep a girl of whom I am amorous. I will take care that she shall not be there on the appointed day, and I will give you the key of the casino. I shall also see that you find a delicate cold supper ready.”