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Updated: June 1, 2025
"The Count says it is an old story that wives accuse their husbands' friends whom they dislike. He thinks women are made of lies. And in any case he says if I am innocent of this charge I can prove my innocence. So all depended on Monsieur de Merri's being here to-morrow to speak for me." "Ah, Madame, if only my speaking for you would avail anything!"
Her demeanour causing me to believe that this put her into peril on her own account, I so pushed my inquiries and offers of service that she told me what that peril was. She said she was the victim of a slander which only Monsieur de Merri's presence here could clear her of. We were soon interrupted and she left me.
On learning at Montoire that this chateau was the only house in which he was known hereabouts, I assumed that the lady must be in this chateau. It turned out that the only lady here was the Countess herself. Do you wonder, then, at my endeavouring to speak to the Countess first upon the matter of Monsieur de Merri's death?" "Pray go on," said the Count, who was taking short and rapid breaths.
It gives him the strength, so 'tis said, to intrigue successfully against the representatives of the people." "Then by all means, citizen," concluded Merri's backer, still hoarse and spent after his fit of coughing, "let us have some of your nectar.
It seemed to me like a sob of despair, or of the breaking down of patience, and, knowing what I did already, I quickly imagined it to proceed from the Countess in a moment when she was beginning to lose hope of Monsieur de Merri's arrival. To me, therefore, it seemed a stab of reproach. I judged that it came by way of the window below me.
I had put together his reticence about Monsieur de Merri, his having been away from Montoire just four and a half days, the direction of his journey, and his errand to be done immediately on returning. He must be the messenger who had carried the lady's note to Sablé, and he was now going to report its delivery and, perhaps, Monsieur de Merri's answer.
So when, in obedience to Merri's orders, the two ruffians began to drag him towards the door, he said firmly: "Leave me alone. I'll go without this unnecessary struggling." Then, before the wretches realised his intention, he had jerked himself free from them and run to Esther. "Have no fear," he said to her in English, and in a rapid whisper. "I'll watch over you. The house opposite.
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