"It will come along."
"Oh! I've got to wait; that isn't very pleasant."
"Dame! monsieur, we can't have 'buses ready to start every minute."
"Why not? It would be much pleasanter for the passengers; but nothing is ever done to please the passengers; I must complain to the management."
"Complain, if you choose, monsieur; that's none of our business."
"Why, yes, it is your business, too; it ought to be your business, as you're the one we deal with. What sort of a way is that to answer? Is that the way you treat passengers here? It seems to me that you ought to show more respect."
The man who is going to La Villette approaches the clerk once more.
"Tell me, have I got time to go to the pastry-cook's to buy a cake?"
"Why, monsieur, no one interferes with your going.—Here's the Grenelle 'bus—passengers for Grenelle—take your places!"
"I ask you if I have got time to go to get a cake before my 'bus comes?"