Mercadet
Paid? How—how have you been paid?
Goulard
In full. Fifty thousand in drafts.
Mercadet (aside)
That I can understand.
Goulard
And eight thousand francs net, in notes.
Mercadet
In bank-notes?
Goulard
Bank-notes.
Mercadet (aside) It is past my understanding. Ah! Eight thousand! Minard might have given them, so that now he'll bring me only twenty-two thousand.
Violette And I—I, who would have been willing to make some reduction—I have been paid in full!
Mercadet
All! (in a low voice to him) I suppose in drafts?
Violette
In first-class drafts to the amount of eighteen thousand francs.