"No, her means are very modest."
"What does the husband do?"
"There isn't one; the lady is a widow."
"No husband; so much the better!"
"Why so much the better? Do you propose to marry the widow?"
"I don't say that. But when there is no man in a house——"
"It is easier to get in, you think, eh?"
"Oh, no! just the opposite; for it is almost always the husband who takes his friends to his house."
"There's no man at Madame Sainte-Suzanne's, but that doesn't prevent her receiving men. She received me, indeed she herself invited me to come to see her."
"For God's sake, Monsieur Chamoureau, let us drop Thélénie!"