"I have only promised to do my best."
"Yes, but my father counts upon your success. How do you intend to act?"
"I haven't yet considered."
"That's just what I foresaw, and I thought it would perhaps be a good thing if we considered it together."
"Mademoiselle, I am listening; compose the plan of campaign, and I will criticise it."
Jeanne clasped her hands over her knees and assumed a thoughtful look.
"Suppose you wrote to him."
"There is every chance that he would not answer."
"Reply paid?"
"Mademoiselle, you are laughing; you are no counsellor any longer."