You ask me what I propose, ask what we should do, and I answer I do not know.

But also I know that if you left me, I should never see you again." "But what difference, then?
You are, I presume, only my new constable." "There could be no social chance for me--I've ruined that.

You would exact defeat of me as surely as you met me, there." "Social chance ?--Social--! Well, the _bon Dieu_! And here you exact defeat for yourself.

But what defeat?
Come, your speech sounds more personal than professional.

What can you possibly think yourself to be, but my new jailer ?" "I'm not so sure.