"Come, Madame," said he, after a pause, "let us be candid, shall we?"
"I wish nothing better for my part, Señor."
"You have here two prisoners?"
"I have two ladies that I have only received into this house on the express injunction of the governor of the town. Is it of these two ladies that you speak, Señor?"
"Yes, Señora, the same."
"Very well, they are here; I have, indeed, very strict orders with respect to them."
"I know it."
"These ladies have nothing, that I can see, to do with this conversation."
"On the contrary, Madame; it is them alone that it concerns; it is on their account alone that I have come here."
"Very well, Señor, continue; I am listening."