“That makes a difference.”
“But this evening we shall have several sedan chairs and Bath chairs.”
“Aha! so they have those things here?”
“To be sure; they are very convenient and much less dangerous than your horse vehicles, which always frighten me.”
“It is true that in a Bath chair the steed doesn’t take the bit in his teeth. And from the mayor’s office we go to the church?”
“Yes; at one o’clock.”
“And then?”
“Then we come back here, and chat until three.”
“Where is the wedding feast to be?”
“Here, my dear. At first Madame de Pontchartrain insisted on having it at her house, but I finally carried the day. We shall be much more free here, you know. We can laugh and sing and frolic.”