—Oh, oh! he explained it to you. And how did he explain that to you?
—He told me….
—Let us see what he told you. Come, come, you most not hang down your head: see, lift up this pretty face and show me this little dimple; what did the Abbé Matou say to you?… Eh, eh! who is there! who is knocking at the door? Is it you, Gaudinet? Rise up, my little daughter, and go and sit down there, in the corner. Come in, Gaudinet, come in then.
Gaudinet put his head discreetly inside.
—Monseigneur, I came to inform you that the Curé of Althausen has been there for some time.
—There? where is that?
—In the cabinet.
—What! in the cabinet? Ah, are you mad, Gaudinet, to send people in this way into my cabinet? I do not approve of that, I do not approve of that at all. What does that Curé of Althausen want with me?