"What! forty sous ... for what?"
"For board and lodging of course!"
"Ah! forty sous!... And how many meals for that?"
"As many as you like! two, three, four—according to your hunger—of course!"
"Good! you say, then, that it is forty sous per day?"
"For artists—Are you a painter?"
"No."
"Well, then it will be fifty sous for you and fifty for your lady—a hundred sous together."
I could not believe the sum.
"Then it is a hundred sous for two, three or four meals and two rooms?"