"Yes, and this young woman?"
"Is as beautiful as she was, perhaps even more so."
"And her figure?"
"Is perfect."
"That is what Raoul told me after he met her in the fields the other day. But who is that big sallow boy who was with her? Some scallawag of a brother probably. It might be a good idea to get him out of the way by giving him a position as clerk in the steward's office with a salary of twelve or fifteen hundred francs a year."
"Good heavens, madame!" exclaimed Zerbinette, springing up in alarm, "there's somebody in the cave. Didn't you hear that noise?"
"Yes, I heard it," replied the intrepid dowager, "what of it?"
"Oh, madame, let us get away as quick as we can."
"I sha'n't do anything of the kind."
"But that noise, madame."