"But she is virtuous, my boy; she is virtuous."
"Get out! and you say that your cousin—"
"Keeps a very good house, and, as she is of the same number as little
Rigolette—"
"Virtuous?"
"Exactly."
"Over!"
"She will not have lodgers without passports or papers; but if any present themselves, knowing I am not very particular, she sends them to me."
"And they pay in consequence?"
"Always."
"But are they all friends of the family, those who have no papers?"