XVIII
ACT III, SCENES I AND II
1. When the master and mistress come home, the cook gets dinner ready. 2. The man[1] puts up the curtains, sweeps the rooms, dusts thefurniture, the tables, armchairs, and sofas. 3. «There's the bell! It isthey!» «Nonsense, it is not yet twelve.» «Yes[2], it is they. I know master's ring.» 4. What a lot of bandboxes and valises they have! 5. When we get home again after a trip, we find on the table all the letters, visiting-cards, and newspapers that have come for us while we were away. 6. People do not return stouter when they have not had a pleasant trip. 7. «May I relieve you of your parcels?»—«Why, certainly!» 8. We owe him a call: he came every day to inquire when we should be back, and is to call again to-day.
[1: domestique; m.] [2: Si.]