I'd advise you to waste no time.

Something tells me that the crisis is near at hand." "Why should Josepha's father tell these things to you ?" "Because, if you will pardon my frankness, I have protected his daughter against Count Marlanx.

He understands.

And yet he would not betray a trust imposed upon him even by the Count.

He has only told me what any one else might have seen with his own eyes.