"To-morrow I shall receive from Vienna my appointment as titular Bishop of the Siebenbürger."
"The silver kings are ready to plank down their millions on the loan."
"The pope gives it his blessing," murmured the abbé. "The cardinal's hat is ready for my head."
"The legitimist financiers have shown a decided objection to my wife appearing on the stage. This may injure the loan; therefore I intend to-morrow to explain to her that she is not legally my wife."
"Is it true that Prince Waldemar has arrived in Paris?"
"Yes, he has come after Eveline."
"But his presence here will be injurious to our speculation. He is our declared enemy."
"He cannot injure us now. Since he met such a total defeat in the matter of the Bondavara mine and the railway his teeth have been drawn. He and his bears have kept very quiet."
"Then it is Eveline who has brought him here?"
"He is mad about her; he follows her everywhere like a dog, and is only anxious to pick up any crumb she will give him."