To make quite certain there was a card nailed to the door with "Plumet, Frame-Maker." "Plumet?
A newly-married couple ?" But already Madame Plumet is at the door.

It is the same little woman who came to Boule's office.

She recognizes me in the dim light of the staircase.
"What, Monsieur Lampron, do you know Monsieur Mouillard ?" "As you apparently do, too, Madame Plumet." "Oh, yes! I know him well; he won my action, you know." "Ah, to be sure-against the cabinet-maker.

Is your husband in ?" "Yes, sir, in the workshop.

Plumet!" Through the half-opened door giving access to an inner room w e could see-in the midst of his molders, gilders, burnishers, and framers--a little dark man with a beard, who looked up and hurriedly undid the strings of his working-apron.
"Coming, Marie!" Little Madame Plumet was a trifle upset at having to receive us in undress, before she had tidied up her rooms.