alone, instead of sending me to do your dirty work?"

"How can I help it, you dear old Victoire?* When I want a person of
respectable appearance and incorruptible morals, I think of you. You
ought to be flattered."

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*See The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc, translated by Alexander
Teixeira de Mattos, and later volumes of the Lupin series.
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"That's all you care about me!" she cried. "You run me into danger once
more; and you think it's funny!"

"What are you risking?"

"How do you mean, what am I risking? All my characters are false."

"Characters are always false."

"And suppose M. Daubrecq finds out? Suppose he makes inquiries?"

"He has made inquiries."

"Eh? What's that?"

"He has telephoned to the steward of Comte Saulevat, in whose service
you say that you have had the honour of being."