with an effort , garnet managed to resist the temptation to remind her that he was the same person who had spent five hundred francs in her establishment only the day before yesterday , and that surely this fact entitled him to something more than a display of indifference , but instead , he retreated , for the second time hastily vacating the dreslin premises , giving his carer instructions to wheel him to the top of lindenhof , where , with the city spread out below him , he could plan his continuing campaign of engagement .