Serge took Cayrol apart.
"What are you going to do to-night, my dear fellow?
"You know an apartment has been prepared for you here ?" "Yes, I have already thanked Madame Desvarennes, but I mean to go back to Paris.

Our little paradise is prepared for us, and I wish to enter it to-night.

I have my carriage and horses here.

I am taking away my wife post-haste." "That is an elopement," said Serge; gayly, "quite in the style of the regency!" "Yes, my dear Prince, that's how we bankers do it," said Cayrol, laughing.
Then changing his tone: "See, I vibrate, I am palpitating.

I am hot and cold by turns.