"Her husband gave it to her," resumes Caroline, with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Ah!"
"Yes, a four hundred franc dress! It's the very finest quality of velvet."
"Four hundred francs!" cries Adolphe, striking the attitude of the apostle Thomas.
"But then there are two extra breadths and enough for a high waist!"
"Monsieur Deschars does things on a grand scale," replies Adolphe, taking refuge in a jest.
"All men don't pay such attentions to their wives," says Caroline, curtly.
"What attentions?"
"Why, Adolphe, thinking of extra breadths and of a waist to make the dress good again, when it is no longer fit to be worn low in the neck."
Adolphe says to himself, "Caroline wants a dress."