By this time they probably know of your arrival.

Do, then, as I ask, I pray and beseech you.

Or this time I may lack the power, though never the will, to save you.' Wholly ignoring my appeal, she looked into my face--for by this time I had advanced to her side--with a whimsical smile.

'You are really much improved in manner since I last saw you,' she said.
'Mademoiselle!' I replied, baffled and repelled.

'What do you mean ?' 'What I say,' she answered, flippantly.