"For your joint, you have ribs of beef; then, for vegetables, on one side string beans, on the other spinach."
"Why need you have more vegetables? You have served them already with your julienne, you told me, so you don't want them again."
"Julienne is a soup, not a meat course. Then——"
"What! is there something more?"
"Macaroni; and as it is always necessary to have sweets——"
"Take my head at once!"
"No, my dear; that wouldn't be good. We shall have a crême à la vanille. You must give me some sugar; I haven't any left."
"Nor I, either!"
"Well, there's plenty at the grocer's."
"No, I still have a few pieces of candied sugar."