"What puzzles me is to know what the workpeople are at."
"They have been working at the pavilion three days running."
"And one evening they brought furniture covered up with a carpet."
"Perhaps he feels remorse for having put Germain into prison?"
"Talking of Germain, he will have some fine recruits in his prison, poor fellow! For I read in the Gazette des Tribunaux that the band of robbers and assassins, whom they seized in the Champs Elysées, in one of the small underground public-houses, had been locked up in La Force."
"Poor Germain! What society for him!"
"Louise Morel, too, will have her share of the recruits; for in this gang, they say, there is a whole family of thieves."
"Then they will send the women to St. Lazare, where Louise is?"
"Perhaps it was some of that gang who stabbed the countess, one of the governor's clients. He has often sent me to inquire after the state of this countess, and seems much interested in her recovery."
"Did they let you enter the house and see the spot where the assassination was committed?"