“In that case, do at least be on your guard.”
“Really, Freluchon, I have never seen you as you are to-night.”
“Distrust especially that villainous looking fellow who is watching the dancing, there at the left; he’s a German baron, who is no more a German than he is a baron, and whom I suspect of being——”
“Well, what?”
“Thélénie’s brother!”
“What an idea! I never heard of her having a brother.”
“An additional reason that! it was probably because he was not a subject that she deemed good enough to put on exhibition.”
“What kind of wine have you been drinking, to have such gloomy ideas?”
“Oh! I haven’t drunk too much; I have been very careful. It isn’t possible that that woman invited us for our good looks; let’s go away.”
“Freluchon, if I am really in any danger here, go away if you choose; I am going to stay.”