"Because you would not come yesterday, monseigneur." "Yesterday, it was impossible; I had an appointment with Lord Stair at five o'clock." "In a house in the Rue des Bons Enfants. My lord does not live any longer, then, at the English embassy?" "Abbe, I had forbidden you to follow me." "Monseigneur, it is my duty to disobey you." "Well, then, disobey; but let me tell stories at my pleasure, without your having the impertinence to show me that you know it, just for the sake of proving the efficiency of your police." "Monseigneur may rest easy in future-I will believe anything!" "I will not promise as much in return, abbe, for here I think you have made a mistake." "Monseigneur, I know what I said, and I repeat it.