“Ah! here you are, my little Dorsan; it’s very good of you to come; we shall have a lot of people to-night.”
“You will have? Do you mean to say that your guests haven’t arrived yet?”
“Some of them are late; but it’s early yet.”
“Not very.”
“We have a tall young lady from the Conservatoire, who has a magnificent voice.”
“And a lady who plays the ‘cello.”
“Great heaven! why, here it’s as it is at Nicolet’s: always worse and worse!”
“Ha! ha! what a funny fellow!”
“What music have you had already?”