Let us be frank.

If you are agent, so am I.See; I have come into your camp.

Dare you not come into ours?
Come; it is an adventure to see a tall, thin old man in a dressing-gown and a red woolen nightcap.
So you will find my chief; and in apartments much different from these." She took up the missive with its broken seal.

"So your chief, as you call him, asks me to come to him, at midnight, with you, a stranger ?" "Do you not believe in charms and in luck, in evil and good fortune, Madam ?" I asked her.

"Now, it is well to be lucky.