"All right; and you start?"
"This very evening."
"So soon?"
"I must. You are aware how time presses at present."
"It is true. Have you nothing more to say to me?"
"Pardon me, I have one other point which I expressly reserved for the last."
"You attach a great interest to it, then?"
"Immense."
"Oh, oh! I am listening to you, then, my friend. Speak quickly."
"On my arrival in this country, at a period when the enterprises I have since successfully carried out were only in embryo, you were good enough, Don Sylva, to place at my disposal not only your credit, which is immense, but your riches, which are incalculable."