"He means to use it to save you."
"And to crush the Duchesse d'Etampes, it may be. Aubry, I will not help to ruin a woman."
"But this woman seeks to ruin you. This woman detests you: no, I am wrong, she adores you."
"And you would have me, in return for that feeling—"
"Why, it's exactly the same as if she hated you since you don't love her. Besides, it's she who has done all this."
"What! she who has done it?"
"Why, yes, it was she who caused your arrest, and carried off Colombe."
"Who told you that?"
"No one; but who else could it have been?"
"Why the provost, or D'Orbec, or Marmagne, to whom you admit that you told the whole story."