I address you as a friend; will you accept the gold of the settings in return for a sum of ready money to be placed in my hands ?" "Eight hundred thousand francs! it is enormous." "I know it." "Impossible to find." "Not so." "But reflect, madame, upon the effect which will be produced by the sale of your jewels." "No one need know it.

You can get sets of false jewels made for me, similar to the real.

Do not answer a word; I insist upon it.

Sell them separately, sell the stones only." "In that way it is easy.

Monsieur is looking out for some sets of jewels as well as single stones for Madame's toilette.