"Adieu; and to our speedy meeting! Now I am no longer afraid to ask you to come and see me as soon as possible."
"Nor I to promise you. Good-bye, dear Germain!"
"Good-bye, my dear girl!"
"Wear the cravat, for fear you should catch cold; it is so damp!"
"What a pretty cravat! And when I reflect that you knitted it for me! Oh, I will never let it leave me!" said Germain, pressing it to his lips.
"Now, then, your spirits will revive, I hope! And so good-bye, once more. Thank you, sir. And now I go away, much happier and more assured. Good-bye, Germain!"
"Farewell, my dear little wife!"
"Adieu!"
A few minutes afterwards, Rigolette, having put on her goloshes and taken her umbrella, left the prison more joyfully than she had entered it. During the conversation of Germain and the grisette, other scenes were passing in one of the prison yards, to which we will now conduct the reader.