But will you at any rate concede that I am a man of my word?
Did I not pledge it last night that Mademoiselle Lange would be safe?
I foresaw her arrest the moment I heard your story.

I hoped that I might reach her before that brute Heron's return; unfortunately he forestalled me by less than half an hour.

Mademoiselle Lange has been arrested, Armand; but why should you not trust me on that account?
Have we not succeeded, I and the others, in worse cases than this one?
They mean no harm to Jeanne Lange," he added emphatically; "I give you my word on that.

They only want her as a decoy.

It is you they want.