"
"That's your answer? You can't mean it."
"I do mean it, just as much as I meant to refuse you the three other
times that you did me the same honour. You asked me to hear what you had
to say to-night, and I have heard it; so there's no reason why I
shouldn't press the electric bell for my chauffeur to stop, and--"
"Do you know that you're pronouncing du Laurier's doom, to say nothing
of your own?"
"No. I don't know it."
"Then I haven't made myself clear enough."
"That's true. You haven't made yourself clear enough."
"In what detail have I failed? Because--".
"In the detail of the document. I've told you I know nothing about it.
You've told me you know everything. Yet--"
"So I do."
"Prove that by saying what it is--to satisfy my curiosity."
"I've explained why I can't do that--here."
"Then why should you stay here longer, since that is the point, to my
mind. You understood before you came into my carriage that I had no
intention of letting you go all the way home with me."
Count Godensky suddenly laughed. And the laugh frightened me--frightened
me horribly, just as I had begun to have confidence in myself, and feel
that I had got the best of the game.
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