I mean Prince Serge Panine." "As you have mentioned Prince Panine," replied Marechal, "allow me to tell you that he has not put his foot inside Madame Desvarennes's door for three weeks.

This is not the way of a man about to marry the daughter of the house." "My dear fellow, I only repeat what I have heard.

As for me, I don't know any more.

I have kept out of the way for more than three months.
And besides, it matters little to me whether Micheline be a commoner or a princess, the wife of Delarue or of Panine.

I shall be none the richer or the poorer, shall I?
Therefore I need not care.