"Free in the future as in the present? She has nothing to fear from you?"
"Nor from any one else."
"Whatever happens?"
"Whatever happens. I have forgotten her name and where she lives."
"Thank you. And au revoir. For we shall meet again, Mr. Shears, shall we not?"
"I have no doubt we shall."
A more or less heated explanation followed between the Englishman and Ganimard and was cut short by Shears with a certain roughness:
"I am very sorry, M. Ganimard, that I can't agree with you. But I have no time to persuade you now. I leave for England in an hour."
"But ... the blonde lady?"
"I know no such person."