“Never utter that dreadful word.”
“You are wrong in getting angry; it is the proper word.”
“A very dirty word, sir, but enough about it. Will you have some breakfast?”
“No, I thank you. I have taken a ‘cafe’ and two ‘Savoyards’.”
“Dear me! What a ferocious breakfast! Pray, explain yourself.”
“I say that I have drunk a cafe and eaten two Savoyards soaked in it, and that is what I do every morning.”
“You are stupid, my good friend. A cafe is the establishment in which coffee is sold, and you ought to say that you have drunk ‘use tasse de cafe’”
“Good indeed! Do you drink the cup? In Italy we say a ‘caffs’, and we are not foolish enough to suppose that it means the coffee-house.”
“He will have the best of it! And the two ‘Savoyards’, how did you swallow them?”
“Soaked in my coffee, for they were not larger than these on your table.”