Devarges was giving me a cup of tea.

As she handed it to me, she said in a low voice: "If I were his friend I should take care Johnny didn't know anything, Mr.Martin." "If I were his friend I should take care he told me what he knew, Mme.
Devarges," I replied.
"Perhaps that's what the colonel thinks," she said.

"Johnny has just been telling us how very attentive he has become.

And the signorina too, I hear." "You don't mean that ?" I exclaimed.

"But, after all, pure kindness, no doubt!" "You have received many attentions from those quarters," she said.