"To be sure, as it was Adeline who lent them to me."
"Men don’t wear openwork things like these."
"Bah! men wear something else, and it doesn’t prevent their dancing."
"But——"
"But these are all I could find, and it seems to me that you ought to be well satisfied."
Robineau concluded at last to put on the stockings.
"They’ll think that it’s a new style I am trying to introduce," he said.
While he began to dress, Fifine took the guitar and hummed a tune.
"So I shan’t have any lesson to-night, my friend?"
"You must see, my dear, that it’s impossible.—They fit me very well, these stockings—exceedingly well—it’s surprising! I have a leg that adapts itself to anything."