“Yes.”
“Then that alters the case. I accept, and with very great pleasure.”
“All right. That settles the question.”
“Perhaps, after all, I ought not to go,” muttered Louis, smiling sadly. “But you remember what I said yesterday about my destiny. Here is the proof. I should have done better not to have come here this evening.”
At this moment we again encountered D——. “My dear fellow,” I said, “I have changed my mind!”
“And you will join us?”
“Yes.”
“Bravo! But I ought to mention one thing.”
“That is?”
“That whoever sups with us to-night, sups with us again to-morrow evening.”