He is full of ideas." "Oh, I do not ask for so much," Madame Martin said.

"People that are natural and show themselves as they are rarely bore me, and sometimes they amuse me." When Paul Vence had gone, Le Menil listened until the noise of footsteps had vanished; then, coming nearer: "To-morrow, at three o'clock?
Do you still love me ?" He asked her to reply while they were alone.

She answered that it was late, that she expected no more visitors, and that no one except her husband would come.
He entreated.

Then she said: "I shall be free to-morrow all day.

Wait for me at three o'clock." He thanked her with a look.