"No doubt. Never empty, eh?"
"I have been a servant of the Hôtel Dieu fourteen years, monsieur the marquis, and have not yet seen all the marble slabs vacant."
"You receive the bodies of the drowned?"
"And place them where they may be seen and claimed."
"How long do you keep them?"
"That depends. Sometimes their friends seek them at once. We have kept a body three months in the winter season, though he turned very green."
"Are all in your present collection gathering verdure?"
"No, monsieur. We have a very fresh one, just brought in; a big stalwart fellow, with the look of the country about him."
"Small clothes?"
"Yes, monsieur."