"Nothing, except that I wished to speak to the master of this house."
"Speak, then."
"What do you mean?"
"I am the master of the house, that is all."
"You? since when, allow me to ask?"
"Diable! since the last three days."
"Good! the house was for sale then?"
"So it would seem, since I have bought it."
"But the former proprietor?"
"No longer lives here, as you see."