“Why, yes; to a rich wife.”
“To whom?”
“My dear boy, he is picking up all your leavings; he is going to marry Mademoiselle Lorinet.”
“He was always enterprising! But, uncle, it wasn’t with him you were engaged yesterday evening?”
“Why not, pray?”
“You told Madeleine to admit a gentleman with a decoration.”
“He has one.”
“Good heavens! What is it?”
“The Nicham Iftikar, if it please you.”
[A Tunisian order, which can be obtained for a very moderate sum.]