"I know. The least false step and I am done for."
"Exactly. So take your precautions, throw the enemy off the scent, go and fetch your papers and await my instructions. The thing is cut and dried. In a month, at latest, we will go to Veldenz Castle together."
"Suppose I'm in prison?"
"I will take you out."
"Can you?"
"The very day after I come out myself. No, I'm wrong: the same evening . . . an hour later."
"You have the means?"
"Since the last ten minutes, an infallible means. You have nothing more to say to me?"
"No."
"Then I'll open the door."