"Very well, as you will! We will settle the point when we have come to it.... You will take half share?"
"Why half, when there are three of us?"
"Because we are leaving you the trouble of working out the plot."
"I will compose the play if you wish; but I will only take a third of the profits."
"We will discuss all that in Paris."
"Precisely so! But do not forget that I make my reservations."
"Then, this 24 July, at five o'clock in the afternoon, it is agreed that you, Goubaux and I shall write Richard Darlington between us."
"To-day, 24 July, my birthday, it is agreed, at five o'clock in the afternoon, that Goubaux, you and I shall write Richard Darlington."
"Is to-day your birthday?"
"I was twenty-nine at four o'clock this morning."