"Do you think also of the delicious dinners I ordered for you?"
"Of course, of course! Oh! you order a dinner perfectly. But that poor Monsieur Chambertin! To make him believe that he was entertaining an illustrious character!"
"Look you, Monsieur Ménard, I don't see why I'm not as good as another man——"
"And to make him give parties and fireworks and magnificent dinners!"
"Where you did your part wonderfully well."
"I acted in perfect good faith, myself; I was your accomplice, without suspecting it. Do you know that you compromised me, and that that was very ill done of you?"
"Have a glass of punch; what do you say?"
"Oh! I am afraid——"
"It shall be very mild."
"All right, if it's mild——"