You take a false view of things.

You do not apprehend the situation." "In God's name, be silent!" she gasped.
"But the time is not one for silence," he returned.
"So I had thought," quoth she.

"Yet since you can be silent and furtive in other matters, I beg that you will be silent in this also.

You talk in vain, Monsieur, in any case.

For I am not minded to leave Choisy.