“No; you may come here, but it will be better for our plans that you should have lodgings elsewhere. First of all, to act up to the character you have assumed, you must begin by dressing differently. I receive a great many people here, and everybody isn’t as stupid——”
“As your husband?”
“Exactly. Here are five hundred francs to replenish your wardrobe. Return to Paris and get yourself suitable clothes.”
“Never fear; I shall be superb!”
“And when you speak, don’t drop into slang, as you did just now.”
“There are some people in the best society who talk slang—as a joke. It’s admissible.”
“Don’t swear by ten thousand cabbages! that’s horribly vulgar!”
“I should say that it was extremely German.”
“And then, don’t be forever playing the windmill with your cane; you look like a merry-andrew.”
“Enough, beautiful princess; I will be perfumed, curled and corseted; in fact, I will be very comme il faut in my dress as in my speech.”