"Watch with care your approaches, for tomorrow we shall probably meet."
"Epoï! You will not fail us at the critical moment?"
"Trust to me; I have given you my word. Our movements will be so planned that both will act at once—the one in advance, the other in arrear; they will be taken as by the throw of a net. If we give them time to recognise us they will escape, so skilful are they. I cannot, therefore, too much urge you to act with the greatest circumspection."
"In your turn, trust in me, Don Zeno. If I your word, you have mine."
"I trust you, then."
"You remember our agreement?"
"Certainly."
"And you will act accordingly?"
"Blindly, although—permit me to tell you—I do not understand your demand."
"One day you will understand me, and then, take my word for it, Don Zeno, you will thank me."