And here I am repaid both capital and interest.
Yet I hesitated.

She snatched my consent.
"No, no," said she, "leave me to act.

I promise you, Monsieur Mouillard, that she shall hear of it, and you, Monsieur Lampron, that the picture shall be framed." She showed us to the top of the stairs, did little Madame Plumet, pleased at having won over her husband, at having shown herself so cunning, and at being employed in a conspiracy of love.

In the street Lampron shook me by the hand.

"Good-by, my friend," he said; "happy men don't need company.