"I intimidate you, perhaps?" she said, laughing.
"Very much so!" he answered, very seriously.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, in astonishment, "how is that possible?"
"It is very possible, and it is true! There's nothing astonishing about it then, that if you intimidate an old man like me, you should intimidate poor little Hubert."
"Little Hubert? he is six feet!"
"Yes, and he is twenty-six years old, but to me he is always little Hubert. Well, anyhow, admit at least that he is handsome?"
"I don't know!"
"Are you going to tell me that you have not looked at him?"
"I have looked at him; but as regards M. de Bernès I am a very bad judge."
"Why so?"