Saint-Charles
Forever, I hope.
Vautrin You can be extremely useful to me, I can be of immense service to you, we understand each other! Let me know what your present business is, and I will tell you mine.
Saint-Charles (aside)
I should like to know whether he is being set on me, or I on him.
Vautrin (aside)
It is going to be a somewhat slow business.
Saint-Charles
I will tell you.
Vautrin
I am attention!
Saint-Charles
Baron, between ourselves, I admire you immensely.
Vautrin
What a compliment from a man like you!
Saint-Charles Not at all! To create a De Frescas in the face of all Paris shows an inventive genius which transcends by a thousand points that of our countesses at the Congress. You are angling for the dowry with rare nerve.
Vautrin
I angling for a dowry?