However, since it would be much better to go with the help' of Adolphe, I immediately inquired my way to the rue Pigale, and started off for it. After many turnings and twistings, I reached my destination at about nine in the morning. Adolphe was not yet up; but his father was walking in the garden. I went up to him. He stopped, let me approach, held out his hand to me, and said—
"So you have come to Paris, then?"
"Yes, Monsieur de Leuven."
"For some stay?"
"For two days."
"What have you come for?"
"I have come to see two people—Adolphe and Talma."
"Ah! is that so? You have become a millionaire, then, or you would not commit such extravagances."
I told M. de Leuven how Paillet and I had accomplished the journey. He looked at me for a minute, then he said—