"Tell them you do not wish to see any one but your notary."
"And you would pass yourself off—"
"For the notary, for an attorney, for anything you please; if necessary I will get a package of papers and green spectacles, and then we can talk as long as we please, without raising any suspicions,—we can talk business."
"About a will, for instance."
"Certainly, the will of poor ——, whose inheritor I would so like to be."
"Heavens! how well you act your rôle!" cried Madame de V——.
Just then her carriage was called.
"Very well," said I, as I accompanied her, "then you will expect to see your notary at three o'clock to-morrow?"
"He can come, and perhaps I will be able to see him."
"Are you going to Madame T——'s concert to-night?"