"What a lot of trouble monsieur would save me, if he would only be so kind as to do as he threatens."
"And how amusing if he were arrested en route," Duchemin supplemented with a wry smile.
"I am quite confident of your ability to elude the police, monsieur."
"Do I hear you compliment me?"
"If you take it so..."
"But suppose you were not confident of my good will?"
"Impossible."
"Madame is too flattering; one is sure she is too wise to put so great a temptation in the way of any man."
"Monsieur is the reverse of flattering; he implies that one does not know where one can repose trust."
"I must warn madame there are those in this world who would call her faith misplaced."