"'Like every one else, I suppose. I took my spoon in one hand and my fork in the other.'
"'Your fork? Good heavens! None but a savage eats soup with a fork. But go on. What did you take next?'
"'A boiled egg.'
"'Good. And what did you do with the shell?'
"'Not eat it, certainly. I left it, of course, in the egg-cup.'
"'Without breaking it through with your spoon?'
"'Without breaking it.'
"'Then, my dear fellow, permit me to tell you that no one eats an egg without breaking the shell, and leaving the spoon standing in it. And after your egg?'
"'I asked for some boulli.'
"'For boulli!' It is a term that no one uses. You should have asked for beef; never for bouilli. Well, and after the bouilli?'