“It seems that way to me.”
“Wouldn’t anyone say that it was a question of uniting two great powers?”
“Perhaps they are afraid they will have to invite us to the wedding.”
“Great heaven! weddings! we have no lack of them; in fact, we have so many that it is fairly sickening.”
“I declined an invitation to another to-morrow. And there is poor Bélan who has already invited us to his, which is to be at Lointier’s.”
“That young man will make a very good husband. Does he get along all right with Madame de Beausire?”
“Oh, yes! since I went to see the mother-in-law, all the obstacles have disappeared. There are some people who aren’t afraid to let me take a hand in their affairs, and who are greatly benefited by it.”
“Let us go, Monsieur Giraud; we still have time to go and see our good friends who have that expensive apartment on Rue de la Paix, and whose daughter you found a husband for two months ago.”
“You are right; I am sure that they expect us to have a cup of tea.”
The husband and wife disappeared without a word to anyone. And those creatures were offended with us because we found it natural and convenient to manage our own affairs! But in society it takes so little to make enemies, especially of narrow-minded people.