"So you've relieved yourself of your ill-gotten gains?"
"I have returned them to the administration."
"To the ---- did that gentleman say he would hand those five-franc pieces to the administration?"
"He said that he would see what he could do with them."
"Just so. There's no doubt that that is what he will do. So you did sleep upon that burning question?"
"I did."
"Then you got the better of me; because I didn't sleep at all."
"I am sorry."
"You ought to be, since the fault was yours."
"Mine! My fault that you didn't sleep!"