<strong>Rudolpho and Alexis, Rudolpho's Quarters</strong><br/><br/>He smiled a bit.  "Please, sit, my dear."  He indicated a chair, and he sat in one next to it, with a small table between them.<br/><br/>"Out in the courtyard, you seemed very disturbed, very agitated.  Was it because I was not there?"  He watched her closely, and after a pause, he said, "Do you understand what this place is?"