I promise you I'll make him swear that he will compel his wife to grant your man admission this very evening.

Only it will, perhaps, be rather late." Then all at once, as if struck by a fresh idea, Duthil went on: "But why shouldn't you come with me?
You secure a line from the Baron, and thereupon, without losing a minute, you go in search of the Baroness.

Ah! yes, the house embarrasses you a little, I understand it.

Would you like to see only the Baron there?
You can wait for him in a little _salon_ downstairs; I will bring him to you." This proposal made Duthil altogether merry, but Pierre, quite scared, hesitated at the idea of thus going to Silviane d'Aulnay's.

It was hardly a place for him.