Act as though we knew nothing." "As you please, gentlemen." Mme.

Giry took the envelope with the twenty notes inside it and made for the door.

She was on the point of going out when the two managers rushed at her: "Oh, no! Oh, no! We're not going to be 'done' a second time! Once bitten, twice shy!" "I beg your pardon, gentlemen," said the old woman, in self-excuse, "you told me to act as though you knew nothing ...

Well, if you knew nothing, I should go away with your envelope!" "And then how would you slip it into my pocket ?" argued Richard, whom Moncharmin fixed with his left eye, while keeping his right on Mme.
Giry: a proceeding likely to strain his sight, but Moncharmin was prepared to go to any length to discover the truth.
"I am to slip it into your pocket when you least expect it, sir.

You know that I always take a little turn behind the scenes, in the course of the evening, and I often go with my daughter to the ballet-foyer, which I am entitled to do, as her mother; I bring her her shoes, when the ballet is about to begin ...