"Madame's costume was certainly magnificent."
"Just look in my bureau, Lizida, in the top drawer, and see how much money I still have."
Mademoiselle Lizida looked into the drawer and answered:
"Madame, I find twenty francs."
"What! only twenty francs! and you changed a note for five hundred only a few days ago! It isn't possible; you haven't looked thoroughly."
"I assure you, madame, that there is no more. But if madame will remember all that she has spent, she will understand that there can hardly be any more.—In the first place, we paid the dressmaker one hundred and twenty-three francs, then the grocer ten francs, and after that fifty more, because he came and made a row."
"That is true; it is hateful to have to give so much money to those people."
"And then, madame bought that lovely hat that she wore yesterday—sixty francs, I believe."
"Yes, and that was none too much."
"And then madame bought that superb silk dress with the figured flounces—one hundred and twenty francs, I believe——"