"It's true?" Cramoisin said, still unconvinced. "You'll join me?"
"I swear it."
"We can't convince Javogues," Cramoisin began, "unless we can make Nicole betray him."
"But how?"
"Jealousy."
"Jealousy? Is there cause? Do you know anything?"
"What is necessary we can invent."
"She won't believe it."
"She'll believe it when she hears it from three persons," Cramoisin said, ruffling up his nose and sneering. "A woman'll believe anything three persons tell her. With Boudgoust and Jambony, we are four."
"Is that your plan?" she cried, in disappointment. "It's stupid, impossible!"