"It's no use your saying that--I can't go to sleep so soon as you
can. Especially with a door that has such a lock as that to it. How
do we know who may come in? What?

"ALL THE LOCKS ARE BAD IN FRANCE?

"The more shame for you to bring me to such a place, then. It only
shows how you value me.

"Well, I dare say you are tired. I am! But then, see what I've gone
through. Well, we won't quarrel in a barbarous country. We won't do
that. Caudle, dear,--what's the French for lace? I know it, only I
forget it. The French for lace, love? What?

"DENTELLE?

"Now, you're not deceiving me?

"YOU NEVER DECEIVED ME YET?

"Oh! don't say that. There isn't a married man in this blessed world
can put his hand upon his heart in bed and say that. French for
lace, dear? Say it again.

"DENTELLE?

"Ha! Dentelle! Good-night, dear. Dentelle! Den-telle."


"I afterwards," writes Caudle, "found out to my cost wherefore she