And then, looking at him a moment, "Do you dance ?" "Not a step." "You are very wrong," she said, simply.

And with another look at her back in the mirror she turned away.
"Do you like Paris ?" asked the old lady, who was apparently wondering what was the proper way to talk to an American.
"Yes, rather," said Newman.

And then he added with a friendly intonation, "Don't you ?" "I can't say I know it.

I know my house--I know my friends--I don't know Paris." "Oh, you lose a great deal," said Newman, sympathetically.
Madame de Bellegarde stared; it was presumably the first time she had been condoled with on her losses.
"I am content with what I have," she said with dignity.
Newman's eyes, at this moment, were wandering round the room, which struck him as rather sad and shabby; passing from the high casements, with their small, thickly-framed panes, to the sallow tints of two or three portraits in pastel, of the last century, which hung between them.

He ought, obviously, to have answered that the contentment of his hostess was quite natural--she had a great deal; but the idea did not occur to him during the pause of some moments which followed.
"Well, my dear mother," said Valentin, coming and leaning against the chimney-piece, "what do you think of my dear friend Newman?
Is he not the excellent fellow I told you ?" "My acquaintance with Mr.Newman has not gone very far," said Madame de Bellegarde.