"Will you go down with me?" asked Bijou, turning to Mademoiselle Dubuisson.
"No, I want to finish packing my trunk, as it is to be sent to Pont-sur-Loire after luncheon."
A quarter of an hour later, Bijou returned in great glee.
"Ah! you don't know something. We are going to spend the evening together to-day!"
"Where?"
"Guess!"
"Oh! I don't know. At the theatre?"
"Right! How did you guess that?"
"Because you said over and over again before M. de Clagny how much you wanted to go to that performance organised by the Dames de France. I suppose he has offered you a box?"