The brunette said: "Have you found your tongue again?"
He stammered "By Jove!" without being able to say anything else.
The three stood together, checking the movement, the current of which swept round them.
All at once she asked: "Will you come home with me?"
And he, quivering with desire, answered roughly: "Yes, but I have only a louis in my pocket."
She smiled indifferently. "It is all the same to me,"' and took his arm in token of possession.
As they went out he thought that with the other louis he could easily hire a suit of dress clothes for the next evening.
II
"Monsieur Forestier, if you please?"