"Pray mind him! He's choking himself. I wouldn't care to let his devotion to my pugs be the cause of his death."
The door closed behind him.
"Well?" said Hussonnet.
"Well, what?"
"I thought——"
"What did you think?"
"Were you not——?"
He completed the sentence with a gesture.
"Oh! no—never in all my life!"
Hussonnet did not press the matter further.