If you wish, we will resume this conversation tomorrow at ten o'clock, say here or in any place convenient to you....

You will excuse me, Marquis.

Dorsenne has no doubt told you under what circumstances--" "Yes, he has told me," interrupted Montfanon, who again glanced at the Prince, and in a manner so mournful that the latter felt himself blush beneath the strange glance, at which, however, it was impossible to feel angry.

Dorsenne had only time to cut short all other explanations by replying to Justus Hafner himself.
"Would you like the meeting at my house?
We shall have more chance to escape remarks." "You have done well to change the place," said Montfanon, five minutes later, on entering the carriage with his young friend.
They had descended the staircase without speaking, for the brave and unreasonable Marquis regretted his strangely provoking attitude of the moment before.
"What would you have ?" he added.

"The profaned palace, the insolent luxury of that thief, the Prince who has sold his family, the Baron whose part is so sinister.