About eleven o'clock
I represented to her the danger of such an enterprise ; she replied , that the only thing necessary was to take our measures with caution , and she found an answer to every objection I started . ` Show me the lover who does not blindly humour every whim of an adored mistress , and I will then allow that I was wrong in yielding so easily on this occasion . ' The resolution was taken to make a dupe of G -- M -- , and by an unforeseen and unlucky turn of fortune , I became the victim myself . `` About eleven o'clock his carriage drove up to the door . He made the most complaisant and refined speeches upon the liberty he had taken of coming to dine with us uninvited . He was not surprised at meeting M. de T -- , who had the night before promised to meet him there , and who had , under some pretext or other , refused a seat in his carriage . Although there was not a single person in the party who was not at heart meditating treachery , we all sat down with an air of mutual confidence and friendship .