"Yes."
"Is he tall and slender, fine figure, and an air too stylish for a traveling clerk? Does yours look just so?"
"Without a doubt it is he," answered Fleur-de-Marie; "only, what is strange is, that you think him a traveling clerk."
"As to that, I am sure of it; he told me so."
"You know him?"
"I know him. He is my neighbor!"
"M. Rudolph?"
"He has a chamber on the fourth floor, alongside of mine."
"He! he!"
"What is so astonishing in all this? It is very simple: he only earns fifteen or eighteen hundred francs a year; he can only hire a modest room, although he has very little regularity about him, for he does not know what his clothes cost him, my dear."