I have some relations in Paris, quiet bourgeois, who keep a small shop near the markets.
If I were to give you a letter to them, saying that you have business in Paris, and have asked me to recommend someone who would provide you with quiet lodgings, no doubt they would willingly take you in.

But I would not involve them in danger.

You might be recognised as being members of some family who are proscribed, and in that case not only would my friends get into trouble but, as they would, of course, say that you were recommended to them by me, I might find myself in a very unpleasant position." "There is no fear of anything of that sort.

I and my sister are both English.

She married the son of a merchant at Nantes, and I came over with her to learn the business.