“What, in that dress?”
“I have no other. A new dress would have cost three hundred francs.”
“Why did you not tell me?”
“I, ask you for anything, after what has happened!”
“I’ll go alone,” says Adolphe, unwilling to be humiliated in his wife.
“I dare say you are very glad to,” returns Caroline, in a captious tone, “it’s plain enough from the way you are got up.”
Eleven persons are in the parlor, all invited to dinner by Adolphe. Caroline is there, looking as if her husband had invited her too. She is waiting for dinner to be served.
“Sir,” says the parlor servant in a whisper to his master, “the cook doesn’t know what on earth to do!”
“What’s the matter?”
“You said nothing to her, sir: and she has only two side-dishes, the beef, a chicken, a salad and vegetables.”