She also recollected the furious and imprudent attack she had made upon d'Artagnan when he spared the life of her brother.
"I do not understand, my Lord," said she, in order to gain time and make her adversary speak out.

"What do you mean to say?
Is there any secret meaning concealed beneath your words ?" "Oh, my God, no!" said Lord de Winter, with apparent good nature.

"You wish to see me, and you come to England.

I learn this desire, or rather I suspect that you feel it; and in order to spare you all the annoyances of a nocturnal arrival in a port and all the fatigues of landing, I send one of my officers to meet you, I place a carriage at his orders, and he brings you hither to this castle, of which I am governor, whither I come every day, and where, in order to satisfy our mutual desire of seeing each other, I have prepared you a chamber.

What is there more astonishing in all that I have said to you than in what you have told me ?" "No; what I think astonishing is that you should expect my coming." "And yet that is the most simple thing in the world, my dear sister.
Have you not observed that the captain of your little vessel, on entering the roadstead, sent forward, in order to obtain permission to enter the port, a little boat bearing his logbook and the register of his voyagers?
I am commandant of the port.