– Si jamais la duchesse se doute de cet entretien, dit-il à Chékina, j’enverrai votre prétendu passer vingt ans à la forteresse, et vous ne le reverrez qu’en cheveux blancs.
"If the Duchessa ever has the slightest suspicion of what we have been saying," he told Cecchina, "I shall send your lover to spend twenty years in the fortress, and when you see him again his hair will be quite white."