"Is it true that you were a little tipsy?"
"It is true that I was a good deal so; I drank six petits verres, and then I drank champagne."
"And you are not strong at that game, perhaps?"
"Not very strong."
"Ah! I could give you lessons in that."
"You know how to drink champagne?"
"I should say so! I know thirty-three different ways of emptying one's glass."
"Thirty-three ways! ah! that's the sort of thing I would like to know. So you are not angry with me any longer, neighbor?"
"I cannot be, as you have apologized."
"I repeat my apology."