'All my bills are presented.'
'Pawn your jewellery.'
'I have sold it all.'
'Then give me your watch.'
'It is sold.'
'Then ask your mother or your uncle.'
'My uncle will perhaps do me the kindness to support my mother. The mother of a bankrupt, you understand, is never very well received.'
'For how much have you failed?'
'For two hundred thousand francs.'
'All through the lottery, was it?'