"Listen Glas! I heard that Cabinski is buying a house on Leszno
Street."
"What are you trying to tell me! By Gad, I'd immediately move into it to make up for the salary he owes me. Where would he get the money?"
"Ciepieszewski saw him with the agents who have the house for sale."
"Nurse!" called Cabinska.
The nurse hastily entered carrying a letter under her apron.
"It wasn't I, it was Felka who broke that looking-glass. She threw a champagne bottle aiming at the chandelier, but struck the mirror instead. Bang! and immediately thirty rubles were added to the bill. That fat guy of hers merely frowned," one of the chorus girls was relating.
"Don't lie! I was not drunk and I remember exactly who broke it," retorted Felka.
"You remember do you? Do you also remember how you jumped off the table and then took off your shoes and . . . ha! ha! ha! ha!"
"Be quiet there!" sharply called Topolski to the chorus girls.
They subdued their voices, but Mimi began almost aloud to tell
Kaczkowska about a new style of hat she had seen on Long Street.