This young girl felt uncomfortable at being a third party with the newly-married couple, and welcomed the arrival of the Prince and Micheline with pleasure.

Her father had left her for a moment in Cayrol's care; but she had not seen him for more than an hour.
"Mademoiselle," said the Prince, gayly, "a little while ago, when I was passing through the rooms, I heard these words: 'Loan, discount, liquidation.' Your father must have been there.

Shall I go and seek him ?" "I should be very grateful," said the young girl.
"I will go." And turning lightly on his heels, happy to escape Jeanne's looks, Serge reentered the furnace.

At once he saw Herzog seated in the corner of a bay-window with one of the principal stock-brokers of Paris.

He was speaking.