“Very bad.”
“Oh, mon Dieu! what is the matter?”
“Something annoys me infinitely.”
“Something! And are you not powerful enough to get rid of it?”
“It is not something, but some one, that M. Quelus means,” said Maugiron, advancing.
“And whom I advise him to get rid of,” said Schomberg, coming forward on the other side.
“Ah, M. de Schomberg! I did not recognize you.”
“Perhaps not; is my face still blue?”
“Not so; you are very pale. Are you not well?”
“Yes, it is with anger.”