Well then, Rose wants to send the letter to the count so as to be revenged on him and on you." "What the deuce has that got to do with me ?" Nana repeated.

"It's a funny business.

So the whole story about Fauchery's in it! Very well, so much the better; the woman has been exasperating me! We shall have a good laugh!" "No, I don't wish it," Mignon briskly rejoined.

"There'll be a pretty scandal! Besides, we've got nothing to gain." He paused, fearing lest he should say too much, while she loudly averred that she was most certainly not going to get a chaste woman into trouble.
But when he still insisted on his refusal she looked steadily at him.
Doubtless he was afraid of seeing Fauchery again introduced into his family in case he broke with the countess.

While avenging her own wrongs, Rose was anxious for that to happen, since she still felt a kindness toward the journalist.