"Really?—How unlucky!—From here I cannot see this mysterious personage. Try and make him stay until it is over."
"If he had seen you, my dear Emilie, there would have been no occasion to ask him; but, unfortunately——"
Madame de Lormoy, hearing a noise, paused, turned her head, and said to Madame de Luceval, "Here he is!" The Prince and Princess de Hansfeld entered the box at that instant.
Friends in the stalls.
CHAPTER XVI
[FRIENDS IN THE STALLS]
"What a crowd!—What a crowd!"
"If I were De Gercourt, at this moment, what an awful fright I should be in!—What say you?"
"I should most decidedly."