“Place de Greve?”
“Yes, don’t you like this quarter?”
“On the contrary, the look-out over the water is pleasant. Oh! what a pretty old house!”
“The sign Notre Dame; it is an old cabaret, which I have transformed into a private house in two days.”
“But the cabaret is still open?”
“Pardieu!”
“And where do you lodge, then?
“I? I lodge with Planchet.”
“You said, just now, ‘This is my house.’”
“I said so, because, in fact, it is my house. I have bought it.”