For two days past I have been quite in the dark as to what's going on.

How do I know that you are not cheating me ?" "Bah! you're a simpleton," replied Felicite, who had retraced her steps at Antoine's doleful appeal.

"You are very foolish not to trust yourself implicitly to us.

A thousand francs! That's a fine sum, a sum that one would only risk in a winning cause.

I advise you to accept." He still hesitated.
"But when we want to seize the place, shall we be allowed to enter quietly ?" "Ah! I don't know," she said, with a smile.