I will not swear that she said prissiez, but the reader will forgive me for adding that embellishment to our dialogue.
"Of course, I can see through that," I replied; "you would have made us pay for two and you would have had one room left to let to other travellers."
"Precisely!—I say, you are not very stupid for a Parisian, I declare!"
I bowed to Mother Oseraie.
"I am not altogether a Parisian," I replied; "but that is a mere matter of detail."
"Then you will have the two rooms?"
"I will."
"I warn you they open one out of the other."
"Capital!"