"It was not for me that he did that, it was for you."
"You are mistaken: your letter was laid before him and on it he wrote 'Granted.'"
"You shall thank him for me, dear friend: you know much better than I do how to address crowned heads."
"Bah! You were very particular as to how one should address Charles X."
"Ah! that was a different thing! he was a king of the old order with the tradition of his race.... He was a Bourbon and not a Valois."
"Chut! Don't say such things here!"
"Because they will cause shame or, perhaps, feelings of remorse?"
Oudard shrugged his shoulders.
"You are incorrigible!" he said.
Another short silence intervened.