The present position is impossible!" "You are not staying here to-night ?" she asked.
"To-night, no!" I answered.

"I will let you know directly I return." "There is one thing else, Capitaine Rotherby.

Could you promise it to me, I wonder ?" "I will try," I answered.
"Do not quarrel any more, if you can help it," she begged, "with Louis!" Her question forced a laugh from my lips.

Quarrel with Louis, indeed! What more could I do in that direction?
Then I frowned, in temporary annoyance.

I hated to hear her speak of him as a person to be considered.
"Louis is a venomous little person," I said, "but I certainly should not quarrel with him more than I can help.