The others continued to unbosom themselves.
"Look over there," said Philippe to Annette. "There's a good chap who ought to be taught it."
With a corner of his eye he indicated Marc, whose mobile face was naïvely betraying the various emotions which the pretty Madame Villard, sitting beside him, stirred in him.
"I'm afraid," said Annette, "that he already has too much of a tendency that way."
"All the better!"
"All the better for those who meet him along the way?"
"Let him walk over them!"
"That's easy for you to say."
"You have only to step aside yourself."
"That would be against nature."