The Count of Monte Cristo

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the door was partially closed after Andrea, so that from the place where
they sat neither the Count nor the baroness could see anything; but as
the banker had accompanied Andrea, Madame Danglars appeared to take no
notice of it.

The count soon heard Andrea's voice, singing a Corsican song,
accompanied by the piano. While the count smiled at hearing this song,
which made him lose sight of Andrea in the recollection of Benedetto,
Madame Danglars was boasting to Monte Cristo of her husband's strength
of mind, who that very morning had lost three or four hundred thousand
francs by a failure at Milan. The praise was well deserved, for had not
the count heard it from the baroness, or by one of those means by which
he knew everything, the baron's countenance would not have led him
to suspect it. "Hem," thought Monte Cristo, "he begins to conceal his
losses; a month since he boasted of them." Then aloud,--"Oh, madame, M.
Danglars is so skilful, he will soon regain at the Bourse what he loses
elsewhere."