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I 'd willingly do so if -- '' `` No . As I told you , should it be known that you and she meet , those who are watching her at present ought not to suspect the real motive of the meeting . So much the better for us : but we must think of her . After four o'clock every afternoon , the young Frenchman she 's engaged to is in the habit of going to her house , and stopping until it 's time for her to go to work . He dines with her , but does n't drive with her to the theatre , as that would be rather too public for the present , until their engagement 's announced . He adores her , but is inconveniently jealous , like most Latins . It 's practically certain that he 's heard your name mentioned in connection with hers , when she was in London , and as a Frenchman invariably fails to understand that a man can admire a beautiful woman without being in love with her , your call at her house might give Mademoiselle Maxine a _ mauvais quart d'heure _ . ''