"Oh! of course; but, after all, the count was no longer a young man; while your daughter was going to be a countess and have forty thousand francs a year; and I believe that the count agreed to make a will when he married her, making her his heir. A woman doesn't find such a husband every day."
"Monsieur Batonnin, it's a sad business to speculate on the death of the person one marries!"
"That is true, it's very sad; but still it's done."
"You may say what you please; I do not pity my daughter."
"You astonish me!"
Adolphine, finding that her sister did not come, went to see her; but the concierge always said to her: "Madame Monléard has gone out;" and the girl understood at last that her sister did not choose to see her.
One morning, Cherami was preparing to go out, when Madame Louchard came up to his room, and said, with an air of mystery:
"There's a person below who wants to know if you are visible; and I came up to make sure that you were dressed from top to toe."
"Who is this person, pray, who makes so much fuss about coming to my room?"