Her tone was reproachful, but her smile was charming.
Nanteuil, the fashionable banker, who was fluttering about the Princess, hastened to take her side:
"Come now, Thomery, you would not put your signature to that?"
Jérôme Fandor, who had just joined the group, declared:
"For my part, I thoroughly agree with you, my dear Monsieur Thomery!"
Sonia Danidoff looked her surprise.
Thomery replied, with a touch of malice:
"Monsieur Fandor is like myself—the Tonkinoise is more to his taste!"
"More than Wagner's operatic big guns!" finished Fandor.
Then turning to the Princess who still wore her air of surprise: