The realization seemed to be bludgeoned into him, assisted by a round of ironic cheers. People were calling out:
“Brava! brava! Diane!”
He heard Babette say:
“Where is the little end-of-a-man?”
And Diane’s voice reply:
“Oh, he is coming back soon, I believe. I forget when.”
A man’s voice—he believed it was the Marquis de Lavernal’s—exclaimed:
“And when is our Diane going to marry it?”
Diane, very emphatically:
“Do not distress yourself, my dear; he’s lost all his money.”