The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus
If I spring into the room at this moment, he will escape by the right-hand door opening into the boudoir, ?or crossing the drawing-room, he will reach the gallery and I shall lose him. I have him now and in five minutes more he'll be safer than if I had him in a cage. ?What is he doing there, alone in Mademoiselle Stangerson's room?
The Birth of Venus
What is he writing? I descend and place the ladder on the ground. Daddy Jacques follows me. We re-enter the chateau. I send Daddy Jacques to wake Monsieur Stangerson, and instruct him to await my coming in Mademoiselle Stangerson's room and to say nothing definite to him before my arrival. I will go and awaken Frederic Larsan. It's a bore to have to do it
The Birth of Venus