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Yes, Sir, the confidence you repose in me, does me honour at the same time that it obliges me. Your frankness ought to excite mine, and I shall answer you without reserve. – The match, which Madame d’ Olcy proposes to you for the Chevalier de Valmont, is too advantageous, in point of fortune, to leave you in the least doubt of my sentiments on the subject: so that I must confess, you are not out in your conjectures: for it is very true, if the Chevalier de Valmont should answer the pains you take with him, and the hopes he gives, Madame d’ Almane and I should prefer him to any other. But I must at the same time inform you, that we would have this project, which can be but very uncertain as yet, absolutely unknown to my daughter: so that you must promise me not to communicate the confession I now make to any one, no not to Madame de Valmont herself. I know your prudence and discretion, and I have not the lease doubt of your keeping this secret, which I look upon as a very important one. You know this union, however desirable it may be to us, depends entirely on the conduct of the Chevalier de Valmont. Adelaide is no more than twelve years and an half old; and Madame d’ Almane had determined not to marry her, till she is eighteen. Between this time and that we shall be able to judge with certainty of the character and principles of the Chevalier de Valmont; and, if during that time he does nothing to forfeit the good opinion we now have of him, I am very certain that Madame d’ Almane will give him her daughter with the greatest pleasure: Madame d’ Almane, I say; for on her alone shall the destiny of Adelaide depend.