“Oh! none at all; but, don’t you know, I like to see—it amuses me.”

“Let us eat and not worry about our neighbors; that will be the better way.”

“It don’t interfere with my eating!—Wait! they’re opening the door.”

And at that moment a man’s voice in the corridor called:

“Bring up the dinner, waiter.”

“It’s the man calling,” said Virginie; “he’s got a little soprano voice, but the voice don’t prove anything at all.”

“Will you have some pigeon?”

“Do wait a minute; you’re hurrying me too much.”

Just then they heard a woman’s voice saying:

“My friend, you forgot to order fritters.”