"I tell you it was silly to suspect such a man!" she said impatiently. "In my heart I feel humiliated that you should have set me to spy on him——"
"What's that!"
"No, I've had enough! I don't like the rôle; I never liked it! Are there no police in France——"
"Little idiot!" he said. "Will you hold your tongue?"
"It is a disgusting métier——"
"Damnation! Hold your tongue!" he repeated. "We've got to do what the Government tells us to do, haven't we?"
"Not I! Never again——"
"Yes, you will! Do you hear? Yes, you will, or I'll twist your neck! Now, I'm going to keep my eye on that other gentleman. Granted that the man you pumped is all right, I'm not so sure about the other, who seems to be an Englishman. I'm going over to stand near him. By and by I'll address him. And if I wink at you, leave your caisse with Mélanie, come over, and sit at their table again——"
"No!"
"Yes, you will!"