"It is true; you fled as if you had seen a ghost, and the name was Monte-Cristo."
Laisangy was terrible to look at.
"Hold your tongue! Hold your tongue!" and the banker rushed toward her with uplifted hand.
But Carmen, with her arms folded upon her breast, looked at him with such disdain that his arm fell at his side.
"And this is not all," she continued. "You met many enemies last evening, it seems; for some one said in the garden, 'Take care that you do not learn my name too soon, Monsieur de Laisangy.' These may not be the precise words, but they are nearly so."
"Ah! you are a spy, then! Look out!"
"I am not in the least afraid of you; but let me tell you that your present conduct strengthens all my suspicions, and I, in my turn, bid you look out! I shall learn the truth, and then—"
"And then—"
"I shall leave you. But if, in self-defence, you raise a finger against one whom I esteem, I will denounce you!"