“I, Mademoiselle?⁠—impossible! Five times I have crossed him this day. Madame must really hire a gendarme for this service. Ouf! Je n’en puis plus! ” 148

“Bah! you are only a coward. What is the message?”

“Precisely of the kind with which Monsieur least likes to be pestered: an urgent summons to go directly to the Athénée , as there is an official visitor⁠—inspector⁠—I know not what⁠—arrived, and Monsieur must meet him: you know how he hates a must .”