ce doit être monsieur. This must be his lordship

(master) ; the cognate character of mister and mastc

(cf. the double sensé of mistress) accounts for the use oî master as a contraction ïov Mr. . . ., but monsieur differs entirely from maître and madame from maîtresse, and therefore the use of each is strictly limited to its spécial sensé.

13. je n'y suis pour personne, I am at home for no one. Note the pronoun y derived from the L. adverb ibi, c.g. ibi sïLin = j'y songe (Terence), and extended to persons as well as time and place ; and observe the similar use of où, L. ubi, c.g. 'Est ubi peccat ' = il lui arrive de se tromper (Horace). Le temps où nous vivons. (See Fasnacht's Gramviar, §§ 27, 34, and 82.)

27. 5. Que voulez-vous que je sache ? "What can I know ? (Que voulez-vous expresses a sensé of helplessness.)

10. une femme = a lady. Une femme simply expresses the sex ; une dame would allude to the rank (but in 1. 12 la femme de monsieur = master's wife). Femme preceded by a possessive adj., or followed

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by a phrase équivalent to it, ahvays means Mife ; it is the fem. of mari, aud botli are usecl in préférence to épouse (m. époux).