Besides, she had a thousand precautions to take, a thousand counsels to give to her defender, in order that he might avoid explanations with the count before witnesses. All this was answered by an expression of d'Artagnan's. "Tomorrow," said he, "you will be avenged, or I shall be dead."
"No," said she, "you will avenge me; but you will not be dead. He is a coward."
"With women, perhaps; but not with men. I know something of him."