Cashier. What do you wish?
Chanoine-Malherbe. Bonjour, Madame M. Forsyth, est-il ici?
Cashier. Forsyth?
Chanoine-Malherbe. Oui, Forsyth.
Cashier. No, there’s no one registered here with that name. No!
Chanoine-Malherbe. Voyons, un jeune homme et une jeune demoiselle?
Cashier. I can’t understand a word you are saying. Interpreter! (Enter the Porter) Have you seen the interpreter?
Porter. He was here a moment ago.
Chanoine-Malherbe. (Taking a pocket-dictionary from his valise) Commissaire, police—here!
Porter. Wot’s ’e saying?