Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 55 Page 24

Porthos was about to speak, but Saint-Aignan did not give him time to answer.

“Ah! my frankness, I see, convinces you,” he said, interpreting the movement according to his own fancy. “You feel that I am right.”

Porthos did not reply, and so Saint-Aignan continued: “I pass by that unfortunate trap-door,” he said, placing his hand on Porthos’s arm, “that trap-door, the occasion and means of so much unhappiness, and which was constructed for — you know what. Well, then, in plain truth, do you suppose that it was I who, of my own accord, in such a place, too, had that trap-door made? — Oh, no! — you do not believe it; and here, again, you feel, you guess, you understand the influence of a will superior to my own.