Then the intruder would be let in.
My reception was quite otherwise. M. Villenave had hardly caught my name before he exclaimed—
"Show him in! show him in!"
In I went.
"Ah! here you are," he said. "Well, I wager you have not been able to find it!"
"What?"
"That famous autograph you promised me yesterday."
"Yes, indeed ... I have found it."
"And have you brought it?"
"To be sure I have!..."