I knew instinctively that there was an ear pasted against the other side of the partition-door, and I said: "No, not at all."
And now he again called out:
"Pauline!"
She made no reply, and did not even move.
He came back to me, and explained:
"You see, she doesn't like me to come home at night, and take a drop with a friend."
"So then you believe she was not asleep?"
He wore an air of dissatisfaction.
"Well, at any rate," he said, "let us have a drink together."
And immediately he showed a disposition to empty the two bottles one after the other without more ado.