There was a tableau at once.
"What do you mean? Of course you know the man."
"Here, my good fellow, I'd like to know what you mean?" demanded Girard.
"Do you call that man your guest?"
"I do."
"Do you know him well?"
Girard appeared very much confused and did not answer.
"Answer; do you know that man well?"
"No, I met him to-night."
All this time Oscar sat silent, but really appeared like a man who had been detected in something mean.