"When will you show us your charmer?"
"Oh! messieurs, I'll show her to you when I am her fortunate vanquisher."
"Then it isn't a finished affair?"
"No; and I shall be careful not to let you see her now; for I know you—you would try to steal her from me."
"To be sure; that is done among friends."
"Do you expect to sigh for long?" asked the tall Florville; "you, my dear viscount, who ordinarily put a love affair through at railroad speed?"
"Ah! this time I have to do with a little minx who is not so easily brought to terms."
"Well! Edward, tell us when you will show her to us, as a proof that you have triumphed? I'll give you three days; is that enough?"
"Hum! I am not sure."
"Come, messieurs, let's do the square thing; we'll give him a week; and if, within a week, he doesn't invite us to dinner with his new conquest, why, we will assign him a place among the gulls.—Is it a bargain, Edward?"