"It will be welcome."
"And yet—" continued the secretary, hesitatingly.
"Well, what more is there? Let us hear."
"And yet if you would allow me to offer you some good advice—"
"Good advice! the devil! that's a rare article, Monsieur le Secrétaire; say on, say on."
"I should advise you to seek another location for your studio than the Grand-Nesle."
"Indeed!" retorted Benvenuto dryly; "think you that it is not a convenient location?"
"It is, indeed; and truth compels me to state that you would have great difficulty in finding a better."
"Very well, what is the matter then?"
"That it belongs to a personage of too much importance for you to come in collision with him without danger."