"If it only had been!"
Then she added indignantly:
"Ballot, monsieur; Ballot, our young clerk!"
"The devil! that young man you liked so well?"
"To be sure. As if anyone could have dreamed! He behaved very well at first."
"And he went astray in the kitchen?"
"Yes, monsieur."
"But was it perfectly certain? People are so ill-natured!"
"They were caught, monsieur; caught among the bunches of onions."
"Enough! tell me no more; you would bring tears to my eyes."