"Why! I ordered him not to leave the house."
"I have given him a commission."
"Oh! That is different."
"You do not ask me what the commission is I have given your engagé," Montbarts remarked a moment later.
"Why should I? It does not concern me, I suppose."
"More than you imagine, brother."
"Nonsense, how so?"
"You offered hospitality to a stranger, did you not?"
"Yes, but what of that?"
"You shall see. This stranger, whom you do not know, for of course you do not—"